The Way One Was Brought Up Isn't

When You Consider How Epidemic Boredom Is In Our Time, You Have To Concede That Entertaining Is A Healing Art.

We Have The Reverse Of The Puritan Work Ethic In America Now. No One Ever Becomes A Star By Plugging Along Year After Year. What Is Needed Is Flair, Talent, 'an Eye,' Contacts, Charisma, And, Most Of All, Naturalness.

Chaperons, Even In Their Days Of Glory, Were Almost Never Able To Enforce Morality; What They Did Was To Force Immorality To Be Discreet. This Is No Small Contribution.

Honesty Is A Virtue, But Not The Only One. If You're In A Courtroom You Need The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth; In The Living Room, Sometimes You Need Anything But. Often.

One Reason That The Task Of Inventing Manners Is So Difficult Is That Etiquette Is Folk Custom, And People Have Emotional Ties To The Forms Of Their Youth. That Is Why There Is Such Hostility Between Generations In Times Of Rapid Change; Their Manners Being Different, Each Feels Affronted By The Other, Taking Even The Most Surface Choices For Challenges.