Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot down: "I am proud to have a son who died doing the job he loved for the country he loved. Nick was always fully aware of the dangers." But Joan Goodall, the Enfield, Middlesex, mother of a 21-year-old cook aboard the Sheffield, was far airport stoic. Said she of her son Neil: "He never joined the navy to die for something as wasteful as this. I feel totally shattered and heartbroken...
...When the water goes," says W.E. Medlock, a stoic, third-generation farmer from Lubbock, Texas, who has lost 47 of his 73 wells in ten years, "we'll just go back to dry-land farming." To the farmers of the Great Plains, those words summon up visions of The Grapes of Wrath. Dry-land farming means larger farms with lower yields, fewer workers and probably higher prices in the supermarkets. Cattlemen know that less water means less corn and therefore smaller herds. Grubb calls such farming the "Russian roulette" of agriculture. Over a ten-year period, he says...
Meanwhile, Claus von Bulow, the glamorous socialite and financier, the stoic foreigner who stole from the rich and who attempted to murder for love, has become somewhat of a cult hero. Crowds, swelling outside the Newport courthouse as the proceedings dragged on, waited each day for the defendant to appear, cheering him wildly as he smiled and waved before ducking into his car. "Claus" t-shirts and buttons, as well as "Innocent" tote-bags became the rage for the "Free Claus...
...unearthly silence settled over Jerusalem. Israel's premonition of living in a friendless world determined on the nation's destruction was fulfilling itself. Israeli children were in mortal danger even while peace negotiations were going on. And yet in its crisis Israel behaved with stoic endurance. Golda, who had bitterly fought every concession, sent Dinitz to my suite to reaffirm her deep commitment to the success of the negotiations. She knew I was frustrated by the endless Talmudic quibbling by which the Syrian recovery of Quneitra was being established in increments of 100 meters. Her gesture toward peace while...
...upriver from Pittsburgh, a steel-gray place of mines, mills and farms, hunting caps, lumberjack shirts, car dealerships and finance companies. It is shot-and-a-beer country, "Iron City" beer. Real boilers are made there as well, and so are quarterbacks. Western Pennsylvania has turned them out as stoic as Johnny Unitas, as extravagant as Joe Namath and as plain tough as George Blanda. Joe Montana Jr. favors all of them somewhat...