In the past few decades, a number of people contend, we have made great progress in no longer being stuffy and pompous. We have, for example, finally scrapped many of those old-fashioned titles. A cardinal may still be addressed as "Your Eminence," but many clergy now use first names, with optional titles -- as in the case of "Father Bob." Many high school teachers and college professors have caught the spirit, too, using only their first names. Three cheers, it seems, for informality!
I dissent.
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