Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected narrative, the second more notable for its explicit records of events over which historians have speculated endlessly. A stoic, melancholy spirit, Caulaincourt was a strange combination himself, a blunt, hard-riding man of action who was also a fatalist and a philosopher, and who wrote with classic seventy...
...Conrad. The essay on Conrad, in the reviewer's opinion, is inadequate and misleading. Like the other essays it has a neatly phrased central thesis pigeon-holing its subject. Conrad, though Polish, "expressed a certain Anglo-Saxon ideal better, perhaps, than any other man of letters." He taught "a stoic philosophy of life, that of the British man of action." This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations of Babalatchi in "An Outcast of the Islands" to the tragic portrait...
...Cobb: "When Santa Claus did you up in a package and dropped you down Creation's chimney, he brought the loveliest Christmas present that I can think of in all the world. . . . I'll give you this, if you'll give me a kiss." Said stoic Shirley Temple, up three hours after bedtime: "Thank you . . . very much." When Claudette Colbert received her prize, she burst into tears. Said Clark Gable: "It's a grand and glorious feeling but I'll be wearing the same size hat tomorrow...
...superficialities of the story more extensively and resolves its crisis with .suicide instead of murder but it remains an embittered and exciting study of primitive perplexities in polite society. As the invalid's nurse, who has to convey to the audience her jealous love for him and her stoic hatred of his wife in a role almost devoid of lines, Peggy Wood gives the outstanding performance. As the wife, Josephine Hutchinson seems more wisely cast than she was in Happiness Ahead. Her next picture will be Oil for the Lamps of China...
Time was when Robert Nathan toyed gently and amiably with his congenital melancholia. Always a writer who preferred fantasy to strict realism, he once put his deepest convictions into the mouths of dancing dogs, unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth...