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(11 of 11) some 68 different works on behavior were published in the U.S. From 1930 to 1945, nearly 80 more manuals went to press. The parodist Donald Ogden Stewart wrote a burlesque of Emily Post called Perfect Behavior, starting with his definition: "The perfect gentleman is he who never...
Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except...
But too much aggressiveness is exhausting. Today there seems a lot of evidence that Americans are tired of it. Stragglers are descending from the culture of the Ik (that east African hill tribe that, as Anthropologist Colin Turnbull found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and...
(3 of 11) lessons, begun by Marjabelle Young Stewart, a writer on etiquette, has tripled in the past three years. Publishers are rushing books into print to rehabilitate Americans' behavior and bring order to their vast social confusion. Columnist Ann Landers, with her wonderfully brisk "listen-cookie" style, has just...
Baldrige, a superbly energetic amalgam of feminist and Tasteful Lady, left a few sections of the original Amy nearly intact?the formal wedding, heraldic devices, parliamentary procedure, how to visit a naval vessel and how to go fox hunting. (Do not show up in black derby with a pink coat...