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"I feel that an American citizen should not bow to foreign monarchs," wrote Martha Mitchell in the Ladles' Home Journal, explaining her own stiff-legged presentation to Queen Elizabeth II at a garden party last July. Protocol-wise, curtsying is optional for non-subjects, but Scotland's 70...
In the midst of it all, Laurent's precocity impresses almost everyone: he writes fine essays on Camus and on suicide for his teacher at school, wins his mother's heart with his advanced sensitivity, and delights his brothers by adeptly following in their not-quite-rakish footsteps. He only...
Sir: While living with three wives is not my idea of an ideal life, it seems to me that this is a matter of manners and morals that should be left strictly to the individual. As for the children, I'm sure their lot would be no worse than...
Lynch's handling of the Joe Cahill case last week was an example of how shrewdly the Prime Minister maintains the balancing act. Cahill, the I.R.A. leader from Belfast, flew from Dublin to the U.S. to raise money "to kill British soldiers." But he was refused entry to the...
A rather excessive way for a director to reply to his critics? Perhaps. But then everything about Ken Russell is excessive, from his appetite for food and music to the caftans, Mickey Mouse shirts, canes and monocles he sometimes affects. "This is not the age of manners," he says. "This...