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...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 is the certainty that each man is responsible for his own success. Both these beliefs are often sadly contradicted by reality...
...Labor Party, credits Kennedy with leading the world into forming "the Trinity of Peace, with Pope John XXIII and Khrushchev." In the past three months, major Italian magazines have carried nine cover stories either on Jack or some other Kennedy, and only one on Johnson. Says Author-Politician Luigi Barzini (The Italians): "Kennedy has attained a superman stature in Italian eyes. He was the man of hope, the man who could have done anything. He was the man who could have brought lasting peace to the entire world...
...every ounce of significance from his travels by boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing but shellfish and books on shellfish...
...chuckles himself to sleep by dipping into Martin Chuzzlewit or Little Dorrit. A sophisticated young matron on New York's Fire Island unabashedly begins her vacation with Frank Yerby's Pride's Castle and Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios. Another confirmed repeater is Author Barzini, who claims that "you can always open Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and find some wonderful sequence about a Byzantine emperor gouging his son's eyes out." A psychiatrist might sneer that the compulsive repeater needs a familiar book for the same reason that Linus totes...
...Italians, Barzini...