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And where greater zealots might enlist "etiquette's weapon of disapproval" to try to restructure society and family life--sanctioning, say, births "out of what was sternly called wedlock"--Miss Manners demurs: "Miss Manners does not oppose the use of social pressure to encourage stable family life.
On the south side of Nanjing Road is People’s Park (Renmin Gongyuan), which used to feature a racecourse, but gambling is sternly condemned in the People’s Republic.
Other photographers of Levinthal's generation, such as Cindy Sherman, have testified to the influence of "Hitler Moves East" in pushing photography away from the sternly mimetic documentary style of the 1960s toward a more playful, artificial relation to the world.
"Ah, the son of Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin," she says, her great eyes shining sternly.
He should follow a child's language learning, not sternly but curiously.