Word: thank-you
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Residual gallantries survive all over the society, but it takes something of an individualist to practice them. Mrs. Robert Wagner, wife of the former mayor of New York, laments that the thank-you note after a party is becoming rarer and rarer. "In the olden days," she says, "you wrote automatically. The notes were done by rote and said nothing. Now they may be fewer, but they mean more." Dr. Alfred Messer of Atlanta cheerfully tells a story of going to eat lunch at his hospital's dining room some months ago. "I instinctively stood up to hold the chair...
...naivete, but also showed that Charles shrewdly understands the real source of royal authority in a democracy. "The first function of any monarchy," he has said, "is the human concern for people." Charles inherited this appreciation: the smashing success of the Queen's Silver Jubilee was in part a thank-you note for all the gracious concern she has lavished on her subjects for the past quartercentury. Over the years Prime Ministers have come to cherish their weekly meetings with her, knowing that her assessment of what Britons will tolerate, and what they will not, is particularly acute...
...what he means by reading a line himself, but not very often and always advancing the reading as a "suggestion." Most directors bark out orders, confusing their actors and exhausting their stage-managers. Some, the nice ones, may preface their demands with a "please," or end them with a "thank-you." Havergal always asks. "Is that okay?" he will say, and you get the feeling he means it. "He's very charming, and very polite. More polite than any student director," Aquino says. His speech is peppered with words like "smashing," and "marvelous," and, according to Hamlin, "his sense...
...crucial battleground for the upcoming election, however, is likely to be newly oil-rich Scotland. With its commitment to the establishment of a Scottish assembly to deal with a wide range of Scottish matters, Labor hopes that it will pick up a large thank-you vote. In an important by-election in Glasgow last week, Labor won handily, a comforting indication that the Scottish Nationalists' bandwagon is not rolling. The Nationalists, however, have traditionally been drawn from the right, and there is always the chance they might decide to return to their Tory home. As a result, party leaders...
Those 300,000 "y'all come" invitations to the Inaugural that were sent out by Jimmy Carter's people were really supposed to be souvenirs. They were, in effect, thank-you notes for small contributions to the campaign, not full-fledged invitations. Yet 250,000 of those who received the eggshell-colored cards took them at their word-and they helped give Carter's big event the aura of a "people's Inaugural...