Open Season On Guests
September, 1957
Etiquette is the body of truce terms between those natural enemies, host and guest, which prevents them from killing each other on sight. Behind this truce, a silent subtle war goes on, move and deadly countermove, for entertaining is social warfare. There is even a uniform ("What shall we wear? Black tie?").In most entertaining, the host has the worst of it. First, he is outnumbered and, second, he is forbidden by the rules to tear off a table leg and beat his guests' brains out. He m...
