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...philosophy-essentially a profound pessimism about the human situation and a stoic sense of tragedy-grew out of war. Like many a child of the times, he was born twice, once in Oak Park, Ill., on July 21, 1899, and a second time during World War I at Fossalta on the Italian Piave on July 8, 1918. At Fossalta, Hemingway, who had switched from ambulance driving to join the Italian infantry, was so badly wounded in a burst of shellfire that he felt life slip from his body, "like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket...
Salinger maintained a stoic silence; the attacks were no more, and certainly no less, than the presidential press secretary had been handling all week. No sooner had the A.S.N.E. opened its annual convention than Salinger was served with a report from Eugene S. Pulliam, managing editor of the Indianapolis News and chairman of the society's Freedom of Information Committee. The report charged the President with reneging on a campaign promise to keep the public informed. "President Kennedy," noted Pulliam, "was on record in writing as believing in freedom of information. To date, neither he nor his Administration...
...Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic composure under the most severe canings...
...astonishing toughness of the British aristocracy. For all the physical grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday...
...children) than at being a father. At 17, Daughter Sophie sprang her surprise engagement on him, and Freud only inquired with middle-class prudence about the young man's financial condition. When this same daughter died of pneumonia eight years later, he bore the tragedy with a typically stoic detachment he himself recognized as chilly: "As a confirmed unbeliever I have no one to accuse and realize that there is no place where ] could lodge a complaint. Deep down I sense a bitter, irreparable narcissistic injury. My wife is profoundly affected in a more human way." The letters show...