Word: stoicism
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...good chance" may seem a very modest resurrection for so much suffering. Like the old Armenians, Arlen is making another wager: on stoicism as the proper response to despair. It is both an honorable bet and a long shot - the only arguable portion of a unique and grieving book...
With the enemy literally at the gates, Saigon last week seemed to be in a state of schizophrenia-and in both phases seemed equally mad. With their inbred fatalism and stoicism, the 3 million residents of the old French colonial capital fought, often in vain, against a rising sense of terror. The result, as TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William McWhirter cabled from Saigon, was a strange blend of serenity and fear in the aloof and careless city that had so largely been spared the shock...
...little disingenuous, since as he spoke the Vietnamese army and air force his government maintained were creating more refugees, by carrying out a scorched-earth headlong flight and bombing such Provisional Revolutionary Government-held towns as Ban Me Thuot. Even if this had not been so. Rockefeller's stoicism before the refugees' supposedly impending deaths bespoke no sudden access of compassion for the Vietnamese people. But it was still as close as any vice-president had come to accepting American non-intervention in Vietnam since Vice-president Nixon argued for dropping some nuclear bombs to help the French...
...suppose I should say something about the "new stoicism" Dylan is preaching in this album. If you look too hard at the words it's hard to deny the triteness of what Dylan is saying...
They broke the news to her two weeks ago, and with the stoicism that she has consistently displayed, she agreed to the date for last week's operation...