Word: stoicism
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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...
Saying "I hardly could miss the ball," Edberg for once displayed the serenity and not just the stoicism of the five-time champion Bjorn Borg. "All of us in Sweden grew up watching Borg in the finals of Wimbledon. Now I've won Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen...
Holleran knows the limits of stoicism. He qualifies the old saying "Life is a tragedy to those who feel, a comedy to those who think" with "Too schematic . . . most of us think and feel." Ground Zero is the proof. It is a tragicomic tour through Manhattan's homosexual nighttown: the gay bathhouses, pornographic theaters and bars that the author cruised a decade ago. He finds the atmosphere radioactive with fear; sperm reminds him of plutonium. In this subdued climate, Holleran finds new enjoyment with his surviving gay companions. He meets many over freshly dug graves and notes the difference...