Three characteristics mark all confirmed expatriates: (1) slowness on the up-take, (2) the tendency to personalize the impersonal-...-interpreting in terms of politeness or of policy what should be kept clearly in terms of ideas, (3) the tendency to orientalize one's attitude toward women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give us a good cheap twenty-four-hour day, No part of which we'd have to waste, I say,... And who knows where we can't get! Wasting time In sleep or slowness is the deadly crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then th...ere are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »