Word: stoicly
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...Douglas MacArthur and his men could hold out long enough, they might still be saved. The Jap was likely to lose the impetus of his first drive as he hit the prepared defense positions, was going to feel in his formations, as well as in his stoic soul, the loss of thousands of fighting men. The U.S. Navy, which this week promised help to the Philippines (see p. 17) might still make the battle's result a question of whose supplies could hold out longer...
Lanterns on the Levee ($3), by William Alexander Percy, a sensitive Southern aristocrat's assertion of stoic faith in the face of a world grown totally vulgar as well as totalitarian...
...artists, they held machines in fear and reason in contempt. They lost faith in progress, protested against life itself. The toughest of them remained within their urban prison, cultivating the stoic pose of the dandy, who scrutinized putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...
...requirements was full proof that for months they have been far ahead of their Government in desiring an all-out prosecution of the war. From the upper classes, who had long foreseen that the war would make the most drastic demands on Property, came no complaint. From the stoic middle classes, whose small holdings were likewise doomed, came none either. Labor's spokesmen were downright enthusiastic. For labor had nothing to give but its toil, for which it would be paid. Intellectual labor pointed out that socialization of industry was one of its historic aims, and the Act came...
...Luxembourg had been taken "under protection" by the Reich. German laborers plodding to work in wooden-soled shoes, with their black bread and margarine wrapped in a newspaper, scarcely paused to listen at the public loudspeakers. The events of the past six years had endowed them with a stoic indifference which no new violence could shatter. Men over 50 had been drafted and even disabled veterans were called into service for behind-the-line duty. Few were left outside the war effort...