Politeness
In Our Time
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The Importance of Relaxed Modern Politeness
To be modern was, you know, what everybody was after, modern, elegant, and easy. That's how they would describe themselves in this polite and commercial society. So at the dinner table, first off, you'd get straight to it. There are some books which give you actual little kind of rules of do's and don'ts. You're not supposed to put your fingers in your nose or your ears. And then there are all sorts of rules of conversation. People are left really thinking, what are the only safe topics of food, weather and the roads?
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