Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoicism has always been part of Pat Nixon's stock in trade, and the inclement weather simply played directly to her strength. Time and again, spectators came away wondering at her true grit. Commented one journalist after her Yellowstone performance: "If every park ranger doesn't snowshoe to the polls to vote for Richard Nixon in November, they've got no sense of gratitude...
Although the Council-Manager form of government vests few formal powers in the Mayor, Ackermann is noteworthy for her stoicism in allowing disorder and personal attacks, even when directed against herself. When the shouting among Danehy, Vellucci and Moncreiff gets out of hand, as it did last week, she simply waits for it to subside rather than trying to restore order...
...become a cabbage, eschewing questions and remaining uninvolved in the search for answers. One can subscribe to an organized illusion, such as Marxism or Christianity. Most courageous, however, is to simply acknowledge the fact and proceed to give form to the chaos." Thus bringing us to the notion of "stoicism", the "courage to be" in the face of this anomie, and the focus of his second novel, The Case History of Comrade...
...author invites the thoroughly turned-around reader to consider these possibilities, Sloan's literary master seems less Kafka than Jorge Luis Borges. He writes dazzling mini-essays on schizophrenia, stoicism, and the role of the artist in relation to society as if his own definition of an artist's job were, in William Gass's memorable phrase, "to canonize confusion...
...camera lacks all tone but a flat, relentless gray. Robert Duvall, a character actor of exceptional virtuosity (TIME, April 3), plays a Mississippi farmer who falls in love with a pregnant woman whom he has found in the woods. Duvall gives an initial impression of such granite stoicism that it slightly unbalances an otherwise carefully modulated and intensely sympathetic performance. The script allows him to open up only toward the end of the film, when it is almost too late. Olga Bellin portrays the back-country madonna in a shrill regional accent that is undiluted Broadway Southern...