Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examination of the material working out every afternoon on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building reveals several outstanding grapplers out for the team along with ten or twelve good but inexperienced operatives. The squad is definitely not a balanced one, however, and every night Chief says a short prayer in the hope that a couple of good lightweights will appear...
...manners as "one aspect of the common man's struggle to achieve a larger degree of human dignity." Statements like these lead the reader to expect a thorough study of manners literature, its relation to and effect on American mores and ideals. What the reader gets, instead, is a short, delightfully styled, whimsey-packed hour's entertainment. But "Learning How to Behave" falls short of being the integrated study of convention that one inevitably feels the research and author's background made possible...
...nation's "leaders" and an ideal for the masses. Looking back at a once-scorned Europe, special arbiters plumped for aristocratic living, and the nation clambered to imitate. The race kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from the age-old knife-fork-spoon controversy to the compatibility of good breeding and petting...
...this makes good reading, and, for the student of American society, provocative reading. When a history professor writes a short, humorous, learned and charming paper, hosannahs should surely drown out stuffy criticism. But Mr. Schlesinger has opened too many doors without searching the rooms: what of the dominance of the American woman in setting the etiquette pace and incidentally inhibiting much vigorous thinking through the centuries? What of the effect on a nation of having an etiquette before it has an ethic? Are not manners surface characteristics rather than molders of men and nations, interesting as they are accepted...
...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...