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Word: torturings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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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...

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

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