Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teen-agers has been rising in recent years. But what distinguishes Ridgewood is the community's spirited reaction to its tragedy. Immediately after the news of Mathieson's death, school officials worked through the night to map a strategy for dealing with the crisis. School Superintendent Samuel Stewart realized that he had two options: he could react dramatically to the community's grief by canceling classes, holding a school assembly or undertaking some other large new program, or he could underplay the deaths for fear that such public activity might trigger more suicides...
...roads and sewers. Agricultural policy has been a disaster; Venezuela imports much of its food from the U.S., Chile and the Caribbean. Inflation (current rate: 13%) persists, and urban street crime is on the rise. Only two weeks ago, the widow of former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela C. Allan Stewart was beaten to death on a Caracas sidewalk...
...Stewart: Time Passages (Arista). Easygoing voyages into the fantastical by a British rocker who treads lightly. May be too lightly; but songs like A Man for All Seasons (yes, it's about Sir Thomas More) and the title cut have a wistful, uninsistent delicacy that will mightily appeal to any college sophomores in the family as they fret over their first submission to the literary magazine...
...some 68 different works on behavior were published in the U.S. From 1930 to 1945, nearly 80 more manuals went to press. The parodist Donald Ogden Stewart wrote a burlesque of Emily Post called Perfect Behavior, starting with his definition: "The perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally causes pain." Manners are always simultaneously something more and something less than they seem. They are the body language of a culture, the gesticulations of its soul: in the profound formality of the Japanese, for example, or the surly and almost pathological caution of the Russians, it is possible to divine both...
...lessons, begun by Marjabelle Young Stewart, a writer on etiquette, has tripled in the past three years. Publishers are rushing books into print to rehabilitate Americans' behavior and bring order to their vast social 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...