Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 100% in wages in the past twelve months; with too much money chasing too few goods, large amounts of cash are waiting to be soaked up. Moreover, workers and pensioners will be cushioned from the impact of diminishing subsidies by cost of living adjustments. Still, consumer stoicism is likely to evaporate quickly if the new market policy fails to improve supplies of foodstuffs and prices continue to rise...
Lawrence's distaste for himself regularly extended to nearly everyone else. But his chilly stoicism had limits. In one letter, he recalls seeing a small girl playing on the grass in front of a cathedral. "I knew of course that she was animal: and I began in my hatred of animals to balance her against the cathedral: and knew then that I'd destroy the building to save...
Still, most folks are proud of their local boy who made good. They are convinced Kennebunkport will survive this latest act of God. "This too shall pass," intones Barbara Rencurrel with abundant Yankee stoicism. In the meantime, says Carl Bartlett, "it's like being in the stands at the circus...
...have to stand outside it and say, 'O.K., destroy me if you must, but I'm going somewhere else.' Those acute, extreme forms of illness almost force you to divide yourself between the suffering animal and the human being who has to moderate the suffering with intelligence and stoicism. And, if not kill it off, at least control it, put the dog on the leash...
Reza, from early childhood, felt guilty for the pain his condition caused the family. He tried to compensate by becoming a totally undemanding, problem- $ free child, and to disarm potential tormentors with charm -- or stoicism when, as often happened, they persisted in their cruelty. "He's never cranky," says Giancalo Chersich, a classmate and friend of Reza's from early childhood...