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...left the Post to live by syndication in 1982, Martin now works alone in an antique-filled ground-floor office in a town house a ten-minute bus ride from her home. The bookshelves contain a large collection of etiquette books, from The Book of the Courtier to Victorian Vista. Martin devotes one day a week to writing her column on an IBM word processor. Some of her mail, which may be useful later (she has to work two months in advance), gets saved in wooden trays with such labels as Weddings, Business or Diverse Civilities; other letters receive...
...wave will in turn lead to a concern about change, whether political, economic or social." So far, however, the current spirit, patriotic and otherwise, shows little sign of being harnessed purposefully. Says Sam Brown, who was director of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency that operates the Peace Corps and VISTA, during the Carter Administration: "With all this sense of feeling good about ourselves, I haven't seen a growth of generous spirit toward the least privileged among us, and that has the risk of turning into an 'Everything's O.K., we don't have to worry...
...hollows, there is staged in America what goes by the name of outdoor drama. Historical works for the most part, family entertainment (young people playing good and brave and true Indians, loutish colonists, supercilious monarchs), they exist, in the hope of snagging tourists, in spots that afford a vista. The oldest of these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette...
...Hilton hotel at Walt Disney World Village in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., has telephones that would fit into Disney's Tomorrowland. With 35 buttons instead of the standard twelve, the UTX Five Star phones do a lot more than just give a dial tone. As in many hotels, guests can press different buttons on the phone for food, a bell captain, a maid, the valet service or medical aid. But they can also hit other buttons to adjust the temperature setting, change the speed of the fan and switch channels on the TV. If a guest forgets to bolt...
...Hilton, waiters no longer have to face tablecloths and napkins covered with ink. Now the restaurant's business guests receive blank cards (3¼ in. by 5 in.) that display the silhouette of a polo player astride his mount. At the American Harvest Restaurant in Manhattan's Vista International Hotel, diners receive a thin pad that slips into a shirt pocket. Still, some places resist the trend. Says Harry Poulakakos, 45, owner of Wall Street's popular drinking spot Harry's at Hanover Square: "If someone asks us for paper, we give them a yellow legal...