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...nation of Stoics. From the outset, Americans have been so compulsive about winning that losing is almost unAmerican. In this sense, the U.S. is only the most extreme example of the Western trait that Oswald Spengler described as Faustian?the refusal to believe in a static order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition...
...pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags and bunting for opening week. Each room is meant to illustrate a national trait; together, the exhibits are intended to answer the question posed by the French-born essayist Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur near the beginning of his 1782 Letters from an American Farmer: "What then is the American, this...
...social cause, but a community of individuals, some of whom could be as intractable, nasty, destructive-and racist-as some whites had been all along. And through these discoveries ran the nagging realization that the more the Negroes got, the more they demanded. That this is a universal human trait was beside the point...
Hemophilia is not just "the disease of kings," although it was so called after Queen Victoria transmitted the deadly trait to Russia's Romanovs and a dozen other royal-blooded descendants. As many as 40,000 Americans, commoners all, are estimated to suffer from the severe, "classical" form of the ailment. Doctors have learned to control most victims' bleeding episodes with transfusions and intravenous injections. But the techniques involved have been complex, cumbersome and costly. Only recently has medical research advanced sufficiently to simplify the process and cope with the problems of supply...
Unique Rapport. Though shy, Trudeau somehow achieved unique rapport with people. The metamorphosis began, his aides say, about the time of the Liberal nominating convention. After that, Trudeau's flair for showmanship became his dominant trait. During the campaign, he reached out to the tumultuous crowds just as eagerly as they clutched for his hand. Thus began the phenomenon that the press quickly dubbed "Trudeaumania...