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But more regrettable than lost heroism, even more lamentable than the missed opportunities for maternal affection, is the effect of e-mail on our minds and mores. The authority on the latter, Miss Manners, writes that e-mail is simply inappropriate for condolences, apologies, thank-you's and other occasions...
DIED. ANTHONY POWELL, 94, British social-comic novelist, whose richly woven 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the genteel manners and morals of Britain's upper-middle class from World War I to the 1970s; in Frome, England. One of Britain's 20th century greats, Powell...
Upon successful completion of the MAC School of Manners, graduates are set to make their debut in most any polite society, be it Bally's or Gold's Gym. Wellbridge applicants, however, may yet need to provide letters of recommendation.
"I know all these kids," Andrade says. "It's all about manners--you respect me, I respect you."
The roof-raising American classical singer and the veteran French composer and pianist rendezvous for a session of bittersweet jazz songs. Legrand selected the tunes (all his own, including Afterthoughts and The Summer Knows), and his piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star...