Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion. Columnist Ann Landers, with her wonderfully brisk "listen-cookie" style, has just come forth with a 1,212-page The Ann Landers Encyclopedia A to Z (abdominal muscles to zoonoses), which gets down to all sorts of nitty-gritty not only about social rituals ("Prince Philip, may I present my laundress Ruth Smith") but also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry II's daughter, has a "book of modern manners" due out in the spring. Probably the best guide to manners in 1978 is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, a Guide to Contemporary...
...Americans really need all of this advice? In any age, most of the interest in manners is casually voyeuristic rather than urgently practical. Manners are entertaining, inherently dramatic. Taken all together, they present a sort of shimmering petit-point likeness of a society. Especially now, in an era of broad transition, manners tend to be brittle and sparky?the friction of an older system being rubbed against by an abrasive future...
...sometimes unique in the problems of protocol and manners it presents. Example: the nude after-dinner soak in the host's hot tub, as its waters are roiled by a Jacuzzi. Californians manage to maintain a casual dignity rather well; the rules are fairly well established and usually observed. They start from the presumption that not everyone may be inclined to participate. Therefore neither the host nor hostess may be the first to strip, nor may they even suggest it. Rather, convention requires what seems to be a spontaneous impulse on the part of a guest, who ideally should...
What the Saudis could do, however, is put a growing share of their monthly income from oil sales-and/or part of the interest from their present greenback holdings-into nondollar investments. So far, they have not shifted enough to hurt the dollar, though at times they have been tempted. At the height of the dollar-selling panic last month, stories floated around the currency exchanges that the Saudis were considering heavier nondollar investments. Then Jimmy Carter announced his Nov. 1 save-the-dollar program of price-bolstering purchases and high interest rates, and the reassured Saudis rushed to help...
Kennedy's proposals present a serious attempt to answer some of these difficulties, partly be redistributing resources to provede a better service to all. His scheme is based largely on the existing Canadian system rather than the European models. Yet much of the underlying philosophy is similar. In practice the U.S. would have 30 years of European experience to learn from. On the basis of this they could probably make a national health insurance scheme work better and avoid some of the problems encountered by the NHS. It needs only sufficient political will for these measures to be introduced. Kennedy...