Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also a man of infinite accessibility ("the most anti-Cellophane being imaginable"), who hated "both stoicism and puritanism." No one dramatized his love and mercy as did Mary Magdalene. Writes Bruckberger: "She foretells that God has come among men not for the sake of the just, but for sinners, for their salvation. He is not really at home among us save when he is in the midst of sinners; he is worthily received only with the tears of repentance ... He came to convert sinners, but he converted them only by making himself loved. That is what, without opening her mouth...
...their rigid dismissal of superstition and their concern with questions of conduct. The doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open eyes. Between Spanish stoicism and New England puritanism there was obviously a grim link, but behind Santayana's philosophy lies another...
...movie does succeed, however, in fulfilling the other essential, good acting. Rashomon demands versatility. The woman must be a tearful maniac in one scene, a persecuted saint in another. The husband moves from cowardice to stoicism, but it is the bandit who really presents a gem of an acting performance. In his own version, especially, he is a cunning beast; oozing with braggadocio. Only half-clothed, his grimy torso shimmers with sweat as he embraces the woman with iron arms and presses his face to her fainting body. In all of his scenes, the bandit in his earthy way makes...
...Baptized Stoicism. The Protestants, he snapped, had little to feel satisfied about. "Calvinism is a fine, manly creed; it is simply baptized stoicism. But as it worships a God who is neither just nor merciful, we can hardly call it Christian." Take Martin Luther: "My detestation of that man grows. This spiritual father of Adolf Hitler says that the state can do no wrong. 'It is God that hangs and beheads men and breaks them on the wheel.' Has any doctrine caused more human misery than this...