Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 10, 1992 TAG: 9203100394
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
As a child in the 1950s, I used to read the hokey society column in our small-town paper. Even then, such columns seemed stilted, old-fashioned and unintentionally humorous.
The other day, I had the misfortune to be eating as I read this line from your March 3 "Mingling": "Anne wore an elegant, high-collared dress in black velvet that she just must let me borrow." Between my rising nausea and my rising laughter, I thought I'd have to call the rescue squad.
If this column is indeed meant to be factual reporting of social events and not just a spoof, then I'd like to remind the columnist that this is 1992, not 1952. The style is derivative and pedestrian.
It seems frivolous, snobbish and very outdated to have a column focusing on who wore what to a fund-raising event and how "affable" and "entertaining" the participants were.
Get real! AMY TATEL ROANOKE
Editor's note: "Mingling" is meant to be factual and fun.
by CNB