With the wit, tact, and wisdom that have made Miss Manners a household name, America's foremost authority on civilized behavior takes you through every aspect of your personal, professional, and social life with ease and charm.
From somewhat classic queries:
* What do I wear to a job interview/felony trial/jacuzzi?
* Where does the soup spoon/seafood fork/butter knife go?
To comments on truly modern phenomena:
* Call waiting is like a child screaming for attention
* Leaky earphones are the equivalent of humming
To strictly personal do's and don'ts:
* Don't communicate everything in a marriage (I had the wildest dream about a man at my office...)
* Do continue the ancient custom of mealtimes, that is, breakfast, lunch, and dinner
And professional guidelines:
* Don't start grabbing company property after being fired
* If a candy dish is on the visitor's side of a receptionist's desk, it is for visitors...
Miss Manners offers consistently sound, sage advice to her Gentle Readers.
With a tipping guide (including coat checks and pizza deliveries), sections devoted to both traditional and nontraditional households, details on protocol for ceremonies and celebrations, invitations and disinvitations, insights on courtship and romance, and much more, this is the comprehensive guide to a kinder, gentler, more civilized society.
Publishers WeeklyMartin, aka syndicated columnist ``Miss Manners,'' here covers everything one might need to know about proper behavior, not just for the coming millennium, but in everyday life in the present decade. In a Q & A format interspersed with short essays on manners, mores and her personal peeves, she deals with the gamut of social situations, from AIDS (``receiving an incurable disease because one does not want to risk offending someone with a question seems excessive'') to nude weddings, telephone answering machines (``the modern equivalent of the butler''), the ``spinach-on-the-tooth rule'' (``draw something unfavorable to a person's attention only if it can easily be fixed'') and the correct response to negative literary criticism (``the etiquette obligation in such cases is on the friends and supporters of the wounded author''). Miss Manners's remarkably sane advice and admonitions, written in the third person and addressed to ``Gentle Reader,'' are entertaining as well as practical. (Nov.)
Categories:
- Education & Teaching
- Schools & Teaching
Publisher : Touchstone
Author : Martin, Judith
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :1990-11-15
Number Of Pages : 768
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 067172228X
ISBN-13 : 9780671722289
Item weight : 2.45 lb
Dimensions : 1.5 in x 7.4 in x 9.1 in
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