3 Cheers for Civility: Advice From Miss Manners

To treat others with respect and to conform our behavior to a given situation is decency incarnate.
3 Cheers for Civility: Advice From Miss Manners
Little things, such as the common courtesies in everyday life, matter. Cora Mueller/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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In “Miss Manners’ Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium,” Judith Martin, also known as “Miss Manners,” creates a fictional family headed by Daffodil and Teddy Right to introduce the complications of etiquette as practiced in the 21st century.
Martin ends her brief examination of modern social behavior with these words:
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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