Word: regarded
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...crest of his popularity, wanted to step down. The cries of outrage were so overwhelming that he agreed to continue. Although the widowed Prime Minister retained his shy daughter Indira as one of his most trusted companions and made her president of the Congress Party, he continued to regard a monarchical succession as "undemocratic and undesirable...
...first heard the news, Comedian-Mime Bill Irwin, 34, thought they were trying to kid a kidder. But in truth he had become the first active performing artist to receive a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. The so-called genius award means that Irwin, who charmed audiences with his 1982 The Regard of Flight clown show, will get $180,000 over the next five years. Awards last week also went to 24 others, including a Georgia country doctor, Curtis Names Sr., 64, and the founder of the World Institute on Disability, Edward Roberts, 45, who is a quadriplegic. The grants...
...elegance do their best to disavow the slightly embarrassing equation of good manners and money. While Emily Post's original guide was full of such now esoteric information as what color livery the footmen should wear, Elizabeth Post insists that she and her grandmother-in-law both regard etiquette as "a code of behavior, based on kindness and consideration." Says Ann Landers: "Good manners are important because they show how you care about another person. Bad manners indicate a lack of caring." Marjabelle Stewart maintains that "manners will take you places money never could." All the etiquette books...
...those who regard Miss Manners as an eccentric anachronism, Judith Martin has a contemporary answer. "It would be ridiculous to say that manners should be static, and we should return to 1948 and behave like that," she says. "The world changes and develops. There are lots of new situations." She has always been richly prepared for them. Printers at the Post, she recalls, tried to embarrass her years ago by telling off-color stories. "I'd look right at them and say, 'I don't understand it. Could you explain it to me?' Have you ever...
...film and literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "But these fantasies are also negated at the same time, because it's not right for good women to lust for power. So they are put in the person of a villainess." Most feminists, however, seem to regard these characters benignly. "The dragon-lady character has always been a stereotype," points out Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will and Femininity. "But shows like Dallas at least give women the illusion that there is a way into power for them...