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He is teaching two courses: one on modern stage comedy ("It seems to complement ... ("By worldliness I mean something more than just manners--something that also involves the motivation of social ...
The latest Brandeis Theater Company production, “She Stoops to Conquer,” is an 18th-century comedy of manners. At the Hardcastle country estate, two impassioned sweethearts, along with a socially ...
table manners were no trivial matter. In 1530, three years before Catherine’s journey to France, Erasmus of Rotterdam found time out from creating a modern version of the Greek New Testament and ...
In the back theater of Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater, the cast of all female, femme-presenting and nonbinary performers ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: In January ... Is this a standard practice in modern times? Is it now customary for hosts to ask for post-event monetary contributions to cover their expenses?
Dear Miss Manners: I’m no more a fan of call waiting ... Am I being rude by hanging up, or is my system sufficiently polite for the modern world? Sufficiently Polite for the Modern World sounds ...
"manners." Two or three days ago this whole question was resurrected from the grave of innocuous desuetude by a waitress, new to the particular dinning hall, who rashly said a pleasant "Yes ...