Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miss Jennie Jerome, daughter of a Wall Street broker, married one of the Churchills of Blenheim Palace, and a whole generation of debutantes sailed across the Atlantic in hopes of doing as well. By contrast, one of Ring Lardner's social-climbing heroines went to stay in an extravagantly expensive Palm Beach hotel in the hope of meeting a grandee like the Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago. When she finally did encounter her in a corridor, Lardner's narrator relates, the great lady only said to her: "Please see that they's some towels...
...life there are hierarchies of money, power and talent because that is the practical way to get things done. In private life, everyone can be equal. To blur the distinctions causes pain. To let money govern private relations is immoral. And to the child's traditional question "Why?", Miss Manners proposes the traditional answer "Because...
...DEAR Miss MANNERS: I want my kids to feel that I am their friend, but I can't make them understand why l can't stand it when they and their friends call me "Pops" and tell me to get snacks for them and . . . turn on the television when I'm trying to read the paper...
...Despite Miss Manners' spartan dedication, it seems hard to believe that the perplexed readers who write her 10,000 letters a year are really inspired by either idealism or altruism. Yuppies, in particular, are pragmatic people who expect a dollar's value for a dollar spent. Such expectations apply to etiquette guides too. As Marjabelle Stewart puts it, "In today's competitive society, manners are a matter of survival...
...come you're so upper class and we're so lower class, and you're our daughter?" a Government economist named Jacob Perlman once asked his sassy child Judith. Not an easy question for the future Miss Manners to answer. Perhaps some kind of metamorphosis began back when Perlman worked for the United Nations and moved his family to the Philippines. Recalls Judith Martin: "My father sat us down, my brother and me, and said, 'Children, we have to tell you something. We have reached the crucial point when the servants outnumber...