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Appointment with Danger (Paramount) is the same rendezvous Alan Ladd has been keeping for years as a stoic man of action whose natural habitat is a daydream by Walter Mitty. But this time tight plotting, realistic backgrounds and good casting take much of the curse off the part of the synthetic tough guy who has made dangerous living into a comfortable livelihood for Actor Ladd...
...eloped with his best friend. When the newlyweds returned, the two boys whipped out revolvers and killed each other. In 1901, Bierce's second son died of pneumonia. Bierce, who later told H. L. Mencken he kept the ashes of one son in a cigar box, uttered a stoic "nothing matters," but weeks passed before he could write a line. When few bought his collected works (1909-12), he knew he was a has-been...
...former--O may the gods forbid that the onrushing Dark Ages have so engulfed even this university--if the former, then we can only turn for comfort to the shining lessons of the great stoic, "O tempora, O mores!" If the latter--remembering that this outrage occurs day after day and at reduced rates--we must join the great Orator in his righteous outburst of indignation and exclaim, "Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra...
Death of a Stoic. Recently, the army came across more & more mines near the village. There were many casualties. Last week, an army truck was blown up by a mine just outside Klidi. The wounded driver saw one of Dimitrios' men, Basilis Stoikos, lurking in the bushes and arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore...
...stoic admiral added: "There is nothing unusual about such a compromise with fate. We make these decisions each time we ride in a taxicab or go skating or skiing...