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...holes to play. "I didn't even make the golf team at the University of Houston," said Thompson-and faded back into obscurity by bogey-ing three straight holes on the last round. That gave the lead to an even less likely prospect: Bruce Crampton, 29, a stocky, stoical Aussie who has played in practically every tournament since he joined the U.S. pro circuit in 1957, and whose 1965 winnings, going into last week's Crosby, totaled exactly $0. But Crampton was taking lessons. And from whom? Jack Nicklaus. "Jack noticed that I was hooding my drives," said...
...effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...
Unlike many a modern intellectual. Arnold did not retreat into ivory-tower es-theticism. sour stoical isolation or epicurean sensuality. Instead, in the muscular Victorian fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between...
...candidly admits to a stoical attitude: "I may be dying, but I certainly would never say anything about it." Her temper, too, is always under rigid control. "I never have tantrums," she says. "If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone." She is just as silent-in public-on the subject of politics. "I've always been a part of what's done," she explained to a pride of society-page lionesses in Detroit last week, "but ; silent partner." Underneath her carapace of reserve Pat Nixon carries...
Kraft Television Theater: Borrowing freely from Balzac's tale of the strange friendship between a lone soldier and a panther in the desert, Playwright Simon Wincelberg almost captured the novelist's eerie mood as well. In The Sea Is Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie...