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What would St. Francis have said to the beggar who was rolled by the Assisian equivalent of a beautiful call girl and wanted to get to the Assisian equivalent of Wall Street? Mutatis mutandis, what would Robert Owen have said? Or Lenin? Or Kingsley Martin? Or Franklin Roosevelt? Or Emily Post? Or Freud? As for my friends and me, words failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country-glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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