Stanley Marcus from A to Z v. 2; Viewpoints: Viewpoints Volume II - Hardcover

Stanley Marcus (author)|Michael V. Hazel (volume Editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574410733 ISBN 13: 9781574410730

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book provides clues to the Marcus of this collection, a man whose eightieth birthday present was the opportunity to be the ringmaster and a clown for a day in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

About this title

About the Author

STANLEY MARCUS, Chairman Emeritus of the Neiman Marcus stores, received a B.A. degree from Harvard University and also attended Harvard Business School. A noted lecturer who published fine press miniature books out of The Somesuch Press, he wrote Minding the Store, Viewpoints of Stanley Marcus, and Stanley Marcus from A to Z all from the University of North Texas Press.
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From the Back Cover

This second collection of columns from The Dallas Morning News serves up more gems of wisdom and wit from the acknowledged harbinger of taste. Stanley Marcus, who for more than 15 years entertained and challenged readers with his weekly column, lets his mind roam through subjects as diverse as advice, dieting, gardening, nonconformists, phobias, sports, toys, and weather.

"The most melancholy task I've ever performed was to tell a store buyer that she had bad taste. Such an accusation cuts to the quick as no other that I can recall, other than advising that a person's breath is bad. People will accept all other types of criticism with equanimity and even appreciation, but not those relating to taste and breath". -- from "Taste Is Now Everybody's Business"

"The quality that probably is most important in happy marriages, but seldom mentioned, is a short memory.... Nothing in life can be perfect, and certainly a long memory that remembers everything and forgets nothing can destroy almost any marriage". -- from "Short Memory Aids Marriage"

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574410733
• ISBN 13: 9781574410730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 261