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...true, as Aldous Huxley said, that for Western man waiting is tortur-only waiting without a goal in sight. "It is not that we are an impatient people but that we are a highly moralistic people," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset. "In a conflict we tend to feel strongly that there is a wrong and a right, and something must be done. Essentially, this is Protestant thinking." Adds Italian Author Luigi Barzini: "What makes an American different from most other people is the certainty that all problems in life, like those in a good math textbook, can be solved. Another...
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