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...Federal Express and all the other businesses that need planes and airports in order to do their work. Millions of jobs depend on aviation. The general public requires the convenience of air travel (though it is often inconvenient), and we are still, for the most part, passive and stoical about the price paid by everyone in noise and other forms of pollution. Most people regard noise - plane noise, truck noise, city noise, siren noise, car alarm noise, and so on - as a fact of life, at least until it becomes continuous and intolerable, which, for many people, it already...
...Mansfield describes manliness as confidence, willingness to stand up to a risk or challenge. A "manly man" takes charge. He is brave, frank, aggressive, competitive, loyal, stoical. "It is harder for women to be manly," he said, slipping on the hot mittens and taking out the cupcakes. "The whole idea of bullfighting, for example, is ridiculous manliness. A woman would never do that." The archetypal "manly" woman is Margaret Thatcher, according to Professor Mansfield. "[She] is an outstanding example: the iron lady. And yet she was quite feminine, I was told, with her husband. Even when she was Prime Minister...
...Stoical about scandalmongering books about his family and gossip-column misinformation about himself, he was as determined as his mother to protect his personal privacy. That is why he took up flying. When he traveled on commercial aircraft, fellow passengers would ask questions, seek autographs, exchange memories. He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden. Once he got his flying license, he seemed a liberated man, free to travel as he wished without superfluous demands on time and energy...
...immigrated to England with his wife and his favorite daughter and colleague Anna "to die in freedom." He got his wish, dying not long after the Nazis unleashed World War II by invading Poland. Listening to an idealistic broadcaster proclaiming this to be the last war, Freud, his stoical humor intact, commented wryly, "My last...
...Marshall waited until late last Tuesday night, when the media army had abandoned its post outside Wen Ho Lee's house, to visit his neighbor. He found Lee, the suspected nuclear spy for the Chinese, bewildered but stoical. "He said he was going to leave it in God's hands," Marshall recalls. "He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong and doesn't understand why he's been singled out. It's as if whatever the Fates decree, that's what has to happen...