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...Majorová leaves little to the imagination in outlining how the proletariat should act at home, in offices, restaurants, trains and even on luxury liners. "Don't yawn when you are bored," she urges. "Just say politely, 'Sorry, this subject is so distant from me that I do not follow your argument.' " As for loud belching, that is "the peak of tactlessness-but if you do it, say quietly 'Pardon me' and don't go into further detail on how it happened." Though she lives in a country where bourgeois dress was long shunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Etiquette for Polar Bears | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

There is something to be learned from such grammatical errors, but at heart this film is a long yawn...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: Hamlet | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

Until Negro leadership successfully directs the black American toward his only practical goal-knowledge-the power of the Negro will remain what it is today, a mere public nuisance. And Whitey is beginning to yawn at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 29, 1966 | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...danger, then, is that the state governments will continue to do their present jobs a little better and to ignore the jobs they might do. Their decline may come not with a whimper but a yawn...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: The State of the States | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Country Below the Surface | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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