Word: stoicism
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...book is not a string of pronouncements: Barrett has a gift for getting people to talk. Even the President's taciturn brother Neil confessed to their lifelong competition in macho stoicism: "I don't give him credit for taking a deep breath, and he won't give me credit for taking a deep breath...
...comforting to men who must battle not only raging storms but also bureaucrats and politicians who would budget perfectly good funds for, say, schools instead of roads. One song celebrates the good wives left behind when a blizzard must be cleared away, and another the sad fact that stoicism is necessary in a poor state like Vermont: "You gotta drive that hunk of junk, son," goes the refrain. "You gotta drive it by yourself...
...part written as a never-relaxing alternation between grief and sexual passion, vctimizes her with its unplayability. Victor Cavallo as Adelfo, the worker-priest who feeds the pigs, also suffers from the flat script, which forces him to stay calm and distanced, his religious acceptance erecting a rigid, unbroken stoicism to block him from the audience. With such starkness, Bertolucci may be striving to create a modern morality play, but he has certainly not drawn real human beings...
...histrionics arise from the most sober-sounding topics, like the one argued in the fifth round: "Armed neutrality is ineffectual at best." Off-the-cuff military analyses? No, Swarthmore's Grant Oliphant and Chris DeMoulin want to argue pop psychology. Speaking first, Oliphant launches an elaborate attack on stoicism, celibacy, alienation and the jut-jawed manner of one of his tournament hosts. Oliphant's rhetorical ripostes ("Will we sentence ourselves to joyless purgatory?") and practiced voice glow with persuasive charm...
...indifference to the ubiquitous cold. Yes, it was -23° in Chester, Mass. Yes, the record cold in Worcester (-8°) broke a local television station's transmitter and knocked out broadcasting for a day. And, yes, the freezing temperatures in Boston caused subway rails to crack. But stoicism hardly faltered. Said NWS Meteorologist John Pollock of Concord, N.H. (where it was -10°); "This is just beautiful New England weather...