Word: stoicism
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...autos sigh for the sticks and clubs sigh for the rich sigh for the poor sigh for the desert and the ocean murmuring and empty sigh for an ancient sigh for the unwed mothers sigh for the artificial energy sigh for happiness for sadness sigh for sentimentality sigh for stoicism sigh to the stars of the invigorating horoscope sigh for the diffuse and for the single minded sigh for your gray hair sigh for your shampoo and your teenager with pimples sigh sigh sigh for your crabgrass sigh for the digests and magazines sigh for the fights sigh...
...eschew "silver horses run down moonbeam in your dark eyes" ("White Room") for the related theme- provocative to puerile adolescents and Marshall scholars alike- of unrequited love. Their blues songs are populated by the inevitable uxorious men, boastful lovers, and sagacious unfortunates. The song titles themselves suggest perturbable stoicism in the face of a vampire as their recurrent subject. Other possible concerns are the sexual connotations of fruits ("The Lemon Song"). the chinoiserie of the open fifth ("Black Mountain Breakdown"), and caetology ("Moby Dick...
Farrell conveys Patricia Neal's feminine qualities with unusual sensitivity. His profile of Roald-a combination of intelligence, stoicism and optimism-is equally good. What Pat and Roald lacks is more of Farrell himself: his own feelings about these people whose lives he has entered, or some audacious perceptions about the events that make up the story-something, at least, to raise this skillful book above the level of the tactful neutrality of its own professional competence...
...necessarily help him succeed his mentor. Ho called him "my best pupil" and "my other self." Dong's striking face was once compared to "a mask carved for a museum of the revolution, in order to show just how far the peoples of Asia are capable of carrying stoicism." Dong once told a French visitor: "We Communists are romantics, too. You don't know how exciting it is to make a revolution." Dong began early, organizing student strikes in Hanoi in 1925, then escaping to China, where he first met Ho. While Ho was in a Chinese jail...
...their feelings, admit to having a low threshold. There is no physiological evidence of any differences in the pain sensors and therefore in the basic pain sensations in these two groups. Whatever differences there are apparently exist entirely in the emotional reactions. These also vary with cultural attitudes. The stoicism of the American Indian and the Chinese is proverbial, although ethnic variations in sensitivity have not been proved. Descendants of "old American" families make a greater effort to suppress their reactions to pain than other cultural groups, such as Italians, among whom an outcry is socially acceptable. For yet others...