The Baron Louis Esterhazy on how to cope with the influx of friends and family — and how one should greet them.
was a revered — and feared — chronicler of the highs — and generally lows — of fashion, society, culture and more. It seems the Esterhazy clan by nature is filled with strong opinions, because has been contacted by the Countess’ long-lost nephew, the Baron Louis J. Esterhazy, who has written from Europe to express his abhorrence of numerous modern fashion and cultural developments. The Baron’s pen is as sharp as his late aunt’s and here is his latest columnseason” is here.
Remarkably, for the world’s most successful commercial nation, Thanksgiving involves very little cheap decoration. Few households pull out dusty boxes of Thanksgiving-themed stuff — although there are the overly enthusiastic who put up turkey figurines, pilgrims and what have you Christmas, on the other hand, can turn into an endless, exhausting and liver-failing round of parties. Here the boundaries and definition of friendships can really test the limit. Seasonal FOMO leads people to accept invitations from those barely known and sometimes not even particularly liked. Never is it easier to distinguish one’s real friends from one’s “party friends.
And at the Christmas party, with the flow of dubious punch, , after about 9 or 10 p.m., the man hugging becomes a competitive sport. That character who you haven’t seen in 18 months, since he made a questionable line call on the tennis court, is coming at your with arms as open as the pontiff himself.
We are all sometimes at fault for thinking that our circle of friends is more or less finite. The General Quartiermeister harangues me for not being more open to new people. She said I remind her of a passage from Isabel Colegate’s fabulous book “The Shooting Party,” set in a grand country house — “Downton Abbey” style, all around an Edwardian pheasant slaughter.
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