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...told me that 'there is nothing else to do here but work,'" Lorenz said. The Experimenter concluded, however, that this unusual propensity for work is not a common characteristic of the Yugoslavs, but a trait peculiar to his host...
During his stay there, Lorenz was given a room to himself in the five-room apartment. Usally that room served as living-dining room for the family. The American often left his door open to encourage the rest of the family to share the room with him. But his over-gracious hosts simply shut the door again...
...Lorenz described the apartment as relatively well-off and modern. There was a toilet and running water, although no hot water. During the winter, a log heater warms the apartment...
Several of the Yugoslavs who played host to Experimenters were engineers. They had taken in an American primarily to improve their English, and had little concept of the aims of the Experiment, Lorenz said. It is often the case that American Experimenters are faced with the problem of explaining the Experiment itself as well as explaining America to their foreign hosts...
...Kamakovskys and one other host family were neither Communist nor anti-Communist, but right in the middle. Like many Yugoslavs, Lorenz said, they are "able to sway with the wind...