Word: virtues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason to assume that "boom" had be come synonymous with "normal," even though millions of Americans now regard it as such. After ten years of rising in comes, younger couples have come to look on new homes, new cars, mechanized kitchens, plentiful jobs and good pay as virtu ally everyone's guarantee...
...what you wish to call character, I am interested but not able to join you in giving to that special virtue any exclusive or supreme respect. You know perhaps that I am not a dogmatist in ethics, aesthetics, or politics. What you admire is stoical and certainly imposing, when genuine; but a thousand Combinations of other virtu arise in the world which appeal to me more. At least you select personages as occasional examples of the "highest" character who do not figure in my personal pantheon. But you know what our friend Spinoza says to the effect that Peter...