Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that helped sell his books often earned the sneers of scholars. He gave history's eccentrics (Casanova, Caligula) more than their due. He was often glib ("Voltaire + Rousseau = Diderot"). On the other hand, he was capable of aphoristic wisdom that any academician would envy ("A nation is born Stoic, dies Epicurean...
...forms of sweetcoms, the noble and the naughty, are deadlier. They announce that children are either sugar or sass-dewy-souled twerps or stunted comedians-and that they must set the tone for domestic life. Hence, parents must go with the flow: act as dispensers of homilies or as stoic butts for the resident insult comic...
...normally stoic citizens of the Soviet Union may be facing a long winter of food shortages. Estimates of the size of this year's harvest in the U.S.S.R. are falling almost as fast as the temperature on the Siberian tundra. Less than a month ago, American experts predicted 180 million metric tons of grain, which would be 5% less than last year's production and 24% lower than 1978's record harvest...
DIED. Eugenio Montale, 84, stoic, reclusive Italian poet whose spare, often difficult verse, which he described as "an attack on life, with no illusions," won him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature; of heart disease; in Milan. Montale, who published his first volume of poetry, Bones of the Cuttlefish, in 1925, produced four more volumes over the next 50 years, supporting himself with jobs as a librarian and literary critic for Italian magazines and newspapers. A self-described "journalist," who regarded spiritual redemption as the only antidote to the tragic realities of life, he once explained that his poetry could...
...world?" To these college students from Calcutta, all of India was in these mountains. They described a country that was eternal, that could never perish as civilizations have elsewhere in the world. The Himalayas and the Ganges that flows from their northern slopes inspire a tranquility and stoic contentment that come from a lack of ambition and a harmonious coexistence with nature. Poverty is just an illusion fixed in the imagination of visitors to the country, and other social problems the result of the impurities imported by the nation's conquerers. I couldn't understand this, they told...