Word: stoicly
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...Washington." As if she had just spent eight years in elected office. Did she? My recollection is that she presided incompetently over a grandiose health plan that failed, and then did First Lady chores (changing all those sheets in the Lincoln bedroom) until forced to endure, in a stoic rage, the sleazy business her husband got into. In the nick of time, she moved to New York before the filing deadline...
...warnings about the danger of Communist witch hunts. But mainly she clicks off the events and people in her life with the diligent rhythms of the Twentieth Century Limited, which she had boarded in 1943 to start her film career. The exception is when she recounts Bogart's stoic struggle with terminal cancer. Here her prose becomes spare and piercing: "I sat with him, had coffee-he still couldn't forget the night before. I asked him if he felt better. 'It's always better in the daylight.' Sun day School was short...
...retrospect a heroic if desolate figure, "fond of lying out with dry cattle" - that is, women who had never given birth. The minor characters are equally memorable: Willalee Bookatee and his family, their black neighbors; the Jew, a peddler whose wagon was crammed with exciting goods; Mr. Willis, the stoic hired hand, who "moved as slow as grass growing" and once extracted a tooth from his own mouth with a pair of pliers. Even the animals - Daisy the mare; Sam the loyal dog: the two mules...
During the service a few wept, but the majority stood in stoic silence. They were convinced that, whatever happens, this celebration would be the last of its kind; there is not likely to be a white Pioneer Day next year in black Zimbabwe...
...portrait endures like a retinal image after the lights are turned off, at once romantic and classical: the artist as stoic...