Word: stoicism
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...Chinatown editor explains their stoicism by saying: "Newcomers have a hard time here for the first ten years, but after that you have a nice car and a nice home and can educate your children, so you don't care." Claiming that higher union wages are not practical in so cutthroat an economic situation, a sweatshop spokesman warned: "You may wipe out an industry with a $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 yearly payroll." Nevertheless, Chinatown residents feel increasingly that the long and patient wait for affluence may be in keeping with Mao-think, but not with life...
...more Negroes will be recruited into the National Guard-as urged by his new Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which reported that Negroes number only 1.15% of the total Army Guardsmen-and directed that the organization be better trained in riot control, his general reaction was one of unhurried stoicism. Accepting a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln from an Illinois group, he observed mildly: "We have been experiencing some of the same problems Abraham Lincoln did 100 years ago. We hope and pray that we can handle them with the compassion and wisdom that...
Miss Walker achieves her intensity through a stoic stillness and a searingly powerful voice. Appleby and Meiman have difficulty sustaining the age of their characters, Appleby's stoicism verging on dullness, and Meiman's self-doubts bordering on adolescent hysterics...
...makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost a decade. Last week was no exception: the winner was Japan's Kenji Kimihara, 25, who pit-patted across the line in 2 hr. 17 min. 11 sec.-just...
...batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument of vengeance ("In Germany," says one psychoanalyst, "anger is a status symbol"), the American knows that he must drive as part of a group. Although Americans endure queues, bad service, inept repairmen, and surly sales help with remarkable stoicism, French Philosopher Jacques Maritain once suggested that they are impatient with life itself. Yet almost everyone has to learn patience in a complex modern society characterized by the growing interdependence between men and the growing reliance on brittle machines...