Word: mannerses
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In the New World, a personal, biblical faith was an American characteristic from the start. The early settlers' fervor was reactivated in the 18th century by Jonathan Edwards and Anglican George Whitefield, America's first mass revivalist. When Whitefield hit Philadelphia in 1739, Freethinker Ben Franklin figured his open-air...
For all the leering sex jokes on ABC, consummation is intriguingly scarce. Characters who want to have sex rarely do; double-entendre punch lines often trail off into pregnant pauses; Suzanne Somers, the blonde bombshell comedienne of Three's Company, never does fall out of her many scanty outfits...
Wine, like every other form of art and artifice, stands or slumps on manners. These new American vintages are well-trained: they do not speak out of turn. They await parental approval. They are infants. Alexis Lichine, a wine grower shipper and guru (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), observes...
Surveys of sexual manners and mores are contradictory and tend to reflect the views of the pollsters. Perhaps the most significant such survey, however, is one taken in 1970 by the Kinsey Institute (officially the Institute for Sex Research), which is being used as the basis of a book entitled...
This novel is J.P. Donleavy's most sustained effort at social comedy. But his stylistic idiosyncrasies are geared to convey energy rather than reflection. The gaudy array of types who tumble through Dar cy's life are more remarkable than remarked upon. The works of Jane Austen and...