Word: mannerses
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Sure, Harvard students pretty much know what accessories to bring and what to leave at home when it comes to the Game—bring the bulletproof vest, leave the jewels—but the issue of what manners to follow or ignore is a bit more tricky. Is it...
Unfortunately for those who cling to decorum even in their most inebriated moments, some actions just don’t have a place in the code of manners. “Throwing up in someone’s car or on your neighbor—it’s probably...
The books have a music of their own, though occasionally compressed into passages that are a trial by vocabulary for shore-hugging readers ("and then these futtock-plates at the rim here hold the dead-eyes for the topmast shrouds"). The books are action-adventures, true, but also peerless novels...
MIND YOUR MANNERS In a competitive market--and this is one--it pays to be polite, says Dario Bravo, who manages internship services at the UCLA career center. So dress appropriately when you head out to your interview, and send a thank-you note directly afterward. "Not an e-mail...
Keillor described people in public life as "well-mannered and respectful." Well-mannered and respectful politicians? Hardly. Sarcasm and ridicule are the manners most often employed. In fact, Keillor's Essay is little more than disdain and hardly an example of civility and good breeding. There's nothing factual in...