Word: mannerses
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How enduring? Before we had a Constitution, Thomas Jefferson was arguing that the new nation's future would depend on a base of agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. One of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey...
Thomas says she's been burping--loudly and fiercely, not quietly and subtly as Miss Manners suggests--since she was eight, when her older brother taught her how. She has continued to do it for the shock value. "I find it really fascinating that people are so surprised [when I...
"You sir, have the boorish manners of a Yalie," says the indignant writer.
When the huge Evita production company blew into Budapest last month to rent its ancient architecture, Madonna, the film's star, was much too busy staying in character to meet with the local press. Finally, on the eve of her departure, good manners prevailed, and the pop diva submitted to...
This sort of diatribe is unacceptable. Ms. Russek's is not Dean Lewis's employer, as she tries to let on ("Without us at Harvard, you would be unemployed."). She is a sophomore who is dishonest and unfair in her arguments, and who has publicly insulted a dean. She should...