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No matter how you look at it, 50 years is a very, very long time, the span of two generations, as a matter of fact, half a century to be precise. It is no wonder, then, that the manners and mores of that early time would be considered not only...
Author Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners, was feted at an elegant party at Eleven Madison Park by Norton, her satisfied publisher. Her next book, "Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)," will be published in November. We spoke for a while with The Divine...
While Hagan didn’t have to learn a special dance, her debutante process monopolized a few months of her life. The summer before her sophomore year of college, she attended the Pastel Ball and then an endless stream of parties—one for each of the 20...
It also doesn’t much help the cause of humor that the play spends far too much time posing as a comedy of manners, forcing Martin’s family to crack defensive jokes about his inexplicably bad-mannered actions. If the point is that no matter how...
This just in: a lot of people think Americans are rude, obnoxious and badly behaved. According to a new study by the research group Public Agenda, 79 percent of us find our compatriots lacking in basic manners. Nearly 90 percent say they've at times encountered rude behavior. And 61...