Word: stoicism
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With a poignant blend of sadness and stoicism, the hostages conveyed Christmas greetings to their Stateside families. The messages reflected their own understated hope that they might soon be free-and indirectly, outside Iran, inspired new resentment over the fact that they had been held for so long in such an unlawful way. Some of the scenes were moving and memorable...
...remains very Slavic in his idiom and main obsession: What is the essence of life? Why are we here? It is not how to live, but why, for the sake of what?" Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky adds: "What this poet preaches is an awfully sober version of Stoicism which does not ignore reality, however absurd and horrendous...
Brown, now a retired high school principal, describes his political transformation 50 years after Harvard. "Ideologically, I have moved from Christianity to Marx and Freud and finally to agnostic stoicism," he writes. "The socialists immunized me against infection by Stalinism, Russian or Chinese. I never voted for FDR or Truman, only for Norman Thomas...
Still, it is possible that the '80s are going to demand some virtues unknown in the '60s and '70s-self-control, selfdiscipline, stoicism, decorum, even inhibition and a little puritanism. It may be time for a touch of reticence. Coercion cannot produce such attitudes, but the mood of the time may. Americans may find themselves agreeing in some paraphrase of Elihu Root when he walked through a squalid Siberian village as Woodrow Wilson's emissary in the first Soviet revolutionary dawn. "I'm a firm his in democracy," he said, as he skeptically eyed...
...Quartet with John Graham, second viola, Columbia; 3 LPs). The best complete set of these masterpieces since the recording by the Budapest Quartet with Walter Trampler. The playing is supple and urgent, fully equal to the symphonic sweep of the great C major quintet as well as the tragic stoicism of the G minor. What it sometimes misses is the mystery of Mozart's luminous, godlike simplicity. But then that is the quality in Mozart that Artur Schnabel described as "too easy for children and too difficult for artists...