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Word: clauses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously Americans have their impatient streak. They distrust patience when it seems only to mask indecision or lack of initiative, the kind of patience that Psychiatrist Eric Berne (Games People Play) has in mind when he says: "Most people spend their life waiting for Santa Claus or death." Americans occasionally admire but basically fail to understand the legendary Oriental patience, which is based on a religious view that sees existence as an inescapable treadmill. In fact, Asians themselves are impatiently copying Western civilization, and they are beginning to recognize that what is seen as patience is often merely resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON PATIENCE AS AN AMERICAN VIRTUE | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...palace to the tune of Colonel Bogie March. In wave upon wave, the royal procession proceeded to the town hall, silver-helmeted motorcyclists, limousines with the visiting kings and queens, six glittering coaches for the bridal couple, Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and their three younger daughters, and Claus's widowed mother, together with rank upon rank of blue-uniformed cavalry officers with high fur busbies. Said a watching Dutchman: "We look more military than the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Orange Blossoms | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Wilhelmina's Diadem. Beatrix herself had never looked happier, more poised-or prettier. Dressed in a white silk gown with a 15-ft. train, a huge diamond brooch, and the same pearl-and-diamond diadem that her grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, had worn, she was first married to Claus in a private civil ceremony by Burgomeister Gijsbertus van Hall. Then, to the strains of Bach and Handel, the couple exchanged rings and "I do's" before 3,000 guests at the Westerkerk. Holding hands, both were so relaxed that they burst into giggles at one point during the sermon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Orange Blossoms | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...thrill for the millions glued to their TV sets in The Netherlands and West Germany, but no danger to the princess or to the 80,000 loyal Dutchmen who turned out, despite a drizzle, to cry "Oranje Boven" (Up with the Orange). Beatrix and the new Prince Claus of The Netherlands took off for the royal honeymoon, their destination a secret. Warned Prince Bernhard, Claus's new father-in-law: "No matter where you go, you'll be lucky to have five days before the press finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Orange Blossoms | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Married. Crown Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, 28, oldest of Queen Juliana's four daughters and heir to the throne; and Claus von Amsberg, 39, former West German diplomat; in Amsterdam (see THE WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 18, 1966 | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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