Word: riche
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Although Mondale strategists bravely talk of winning electorally rich Texas and California, Reagan's strongest leads are in the South (60% to 27%) and the West (59% to 30%). Since September, Mondale has improved slightly in the Northeast and Midwest but still trails Reagan by 10% and 22%, respectively. Mondale has also been unable to call home the traditionally Democratic labor vote. Among union households, Reagan now leads 46% to 38%, seven points more than his September margin...
Mating rituals on the college campus are reacquiring a rich patina of hypocrisy. "College students are much more conservative now than they used to be," says Lisa Birnbach, co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook and now creator of Lisa Birnbach's College Book. "There's more dating, more courtship, a return of women's 'reputations' and the good old double standard. People are still sneaking around to have sexual relations, but they don't talk about it. It's viewed as kind of'icky...
...title, The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility. Throughout the century, a dominant class that felt threatened by raucous immigrants and the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution saw etiquette as a means of establishing and maintaining a hierarchy. The up-and-coming aped the manners of the rich, the new rich aped the old, and everyone looked yearningly back toward aristocratic Europe...
Nobody supports this humanitarian thesis more strongly than Judith Martin. "Good manners are not just for the very rich," she says. "Good manners are for everyone. Good manners are free." She was correspondingly appalled when Reagan's first protocol officer, Leonore Annenberg, curtsied to Prince Charles on his 1981 visit to Washington. "If there is any basic principle of American life, it is that we do not recognize that anyone is born at a higher level than anyone else. We do not bend the knee to anyone except God, or in some cases his representative. I found it incredibly...
Trying to put the Armageddon issue into perspective, one moderate evangelical, New Testament Professor A. Berkeley Mickelsen of Minnesota's Bethel Theological Seminary, points out that the accounts of Christ's return are rich in symbolism. Says he: "If you're not careful, pretty soon it's Buck Rogers. To take apocalyptic language and make it scientific language is wrong." He is perturbed at the prophecy hunters' emphasis on global conflict. "Scripture teaches that great nations must treat compassionately the oppressed of the earth," says Mickelsen. "When Christ really does break into this scene, there...