Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what was happening. But the nation's farmers-the people most immediately affected-thought they knew the score. They were sure that their golden era of super-high prices was over, but they did not think they were in for a frightful bust. They took their losses with stoicism or good cheer...
...Cheerful Stoicism. Thousands were homeless. More thousands were marooned. Many evacuees, sheltered and fed by the Army and Red Cross, evidently enjoyed the break in routine; they seemed to be playing a part that called for "cheerful stoicism." Frederick More and his wife reflected the general attitude, as a boatman rowed them to their waterlogged house in Windsor. Said twinkling Mr. More: "I've always wanted a holiday in Venice; now I know what it's like. At first the wife was fed up, but now she treats it like a joke." Said thin, worried-looking Mrs. More...
...stock of young hill sheep (those which graze on the uplands and are later sent to the lowlands to fatten). In the lowlands 1,000,000 head had been lost. To wool-weaving, meat-hungry Britain that meant another crisis. The people were going to need every bit of stoicism they could muster...
Miss Lamour changes clothes, to good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...
Permanent Adolescent. Housman seems essentially to have remained an adolescent, all of his 77 years. At their weakest, his emotions had the innocent, arrogant self-pity, the horribly magnanimous sentimentality, the incontinent irony, of which extreme youth is capable. At their best, they had the Roman stoicism and the Athenian sentience which are sometimes the glory of the very fine-souled when they are very young. In most of his verse their blend is irreducible, but it is fertilized by a minor yet miraculous poetic gift...