Word: mannerses
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Looking over the list of behaviors that could define hyperactive children, I was struck by the fact that they describe what we used to call an obnoxious little brat. Pity the poor parents who have to resort to drugs to replace good old-fashioned parenting. Do any of the kids...
Manners in the Digital Age
Some do it, some don't and most don't want to hear about it. Praying for a candidate? Irked that somewhere out there someone might be praying for you? It's called religious toleration--take heed. As for those who decide to reach out and pray for someone, Dartboard...
Updike the Yankee and Wolfe the Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous...
Perhaps it is writ deep into the psyche of our native land, but Americans are unaccustomed to gastronomic rules. Proper etiquette is dictated by the all-powerful edicts of Miss Manners: the ubiquitous "no elbows on the table," the less common, unwieldy knife switch-over between cutting and chewing and...