Word: stoicism
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Since in Russia it has always been more important to know the exceptions than to know the rules, citizens of Moscow accepted with stoicism last week the revelation that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow...
...smile on the face of Mr. Quo would not come off. He rejoiced that the U. S. and Britain had decided not to give wings to the tiger. That the tiger was proposing to sprout wings anyhow seemed to Mr. Quo a fact which he could accept with poetic stoicism. No one else in the world received with more perfect aplomb the dread, though long expected announcement of Japan's Privy Council last week that the Imperial Government denounces the Washington Naval Treaty, thus causing it to expire...
...Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite, but whose appetite and taste, happily enough, may be assuaged and satisfied by a nibble at a desert cactus, and he then is ready for another long and arid journey...
...sagacity and his apparent incompetence, Claudius came unscathed through the ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy finally rid Rome...
...Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante...