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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worried about college credit courses and advanced placement tests." In Rae Anne's first psychology class, the teacher asked if anyone wanted to talk about the strike. One boy blurted, "I feel screwed." The problem of making up the lost work calls for the sort of student-teacher cooperation that money cannot buy and contracts cannot ratify...
...understand not just what had happened but exactly why. What emerged from this post-mortem on the 1978 elections was a vision of American politics in which large numbers of people sat by like wallflowers in a dance hall while small groups of voters performed an erratic sort of disco dance...
...sort out these social mysteries? It has become extremely complicated to be polite in America. There was a time when the upwardly mobile and socially inecure believed as fervently as The Four Hundred that there existed somewhere?in the mind of God, perhaps, or the graven tablets of Emily Post?an absolute standard of The Correct. All contingencies were covered in this elaborate system of law, as refined as the Talmud and sometimes as difficult to interpret. But trying to cultivate manners today is like buying a house in Grosse Pointe and discovering that the previous tenants were the Symbionese...
...emotionally invalid or, at last, hopelessly and rather touchingly quaint. The women's movement called a world of once reflexive rituals into doubt. The masculine urge to rise when a woman entered the room seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses...
...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...