Word: stoicism
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White-knuckle stoicism has never been in short supply in Russia. After all, the country lost 20 million people in World War II but still fought the Nazis all the way back to Berlin. Yet, amid a massive security clampdown following two apartment bombings that killed almost 300 people in Moscow, the prevailing mood is more resigned than defiant. "There?s an overwhelming sense here of powerlessness and very little faith in the government?s ability to protect citizens from acts of terror," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "People are depressed and demoralized but have nowhere to look...
Townsend has taken her father's admonition to heart and added to it the special stoicism that comes from being the tribe's eldest. Her family nicknames include "Clean Kathleen," "the Nun" and "the Un-Kennedy." Says longtime friend Tim Hagen, a former local politician in Ohio whom she met while working for her uncle Ted's 1980 presidential campaign: "At times Kathleen is so resolute she does not accept the irreconcilable." Indeed, her staff says one of her favorite words is "unacceptable...
...together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself and all others, a code of scrupulous honesty, precision, self-control, courage, skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also pervades his spare and detached writing, dictating not only the actions and responses of his heroes and heroines from Nick Adams through the protagonist known to the American high-schooler only as the Old Man, but also the shape of his sentences...
...here I come dangerously close to becoming just one more plaintive voice in the cacophony of reading period dismay. Rather, we should all try to put our troubles in the back of our minds, and face life with--if not a smile and a wink--at least a silent stoicism. Towards that end, we need only look to the oft-neglected outside world for ever-present reminder that things could certainly be a whole lot worse...
...saga of BILL and HILLARY CLINTON's marriage. GAIL SHEEHY's 21-page report examines the psychological underpinnings of the First Couple's frequently anguished relationship. Among the highlights is a rare interview with Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mom, who sheds light on the First Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it...She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That's one thing I never did, either." Sheehy reports that the post-Monica healing process is far from over, quoting...