Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambodian Witness remembers a country at war with itself. -- A Client Called Noah regards affliction with stoicism and comic belief...
...whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
...entire vestibule and half the pinochle game reply smugly: "Listen, you gotta have a lot of humor and a tremendous amount of stoicism to survive the Long Island Rail Road." Each, hardier than thou, recounts a tale of endurance. "You should have been here yesterday. The people who change at Jamaica got on a train that already had passengers from two trains loaded onto it. Then they rode out to the middle of Queens Village and stopped for an hour. No explanation. No seats. No air." The man crouched on his briefcase one-ups: "You should have been here last...
Most Indians will remember Indira Gandhi [WORLD, Nov. 12] as a woman of great fearlessness, even though her reputation will always be hemmed in by qualifying clauses. Despite her aloofness, she appeared strangely accessible. It would be an injustice to mistake her stoicism for stony heartlessness. As she said in an interview after her younger son's death, 'The wounds are there, but perhaps some scars do not show...
...Anita track in California during the winter of 1979, his fairy tale turned to nightmare: a seemingly endless 110-race losing streak. Other riders murmured that he was tentative, for a jockey the kiss of death. The once-upon-a-time darling was lustily booed. Recalls Cauthen, with typical stoicism: "I was a bit shocked about the way people reacted to what was happening to me." At his lowest point, he accepted a lucrative offer from the wealthy English horse owner Robert Sangster to race for him during the English flat season. Why not, Cauthen mused. "I felt...