41.   What is the secret of a happy marriage, especially one that flies in the face of social convention and is fraught with personal turmoil?

42.   While scientists are coming to the conclusion that disorganization is an inherited trait, the erosion of social conventions is also blamed for increasing manifestations of this aberrant behavior.

43.   Herodotus did not think that the Massagetae should be criticized for such practices, because he believed that Right and Wrong are little more than names for social conventions.

44.   The well-born, free-spirited De Callias flouted social convention.

45.   Then there was the idea of a European social convention, raised last December by former prime minister Edouard Balladur.