Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nature did not cast him to play princes. The watery eyes gave him a look both stoic and startled: in Kenneth Tynan's phrase, "like a Teddy bear snapped in a bad light by a child holding its first camera." The body was pear-shaped and the vocal tones were not; they pontificated, or quavered with sentiment. The hands rose and fluttered independently, articulating a sweetly deranged sign language. Ralph Richardson was no matinee idol?no ethereal saint like John Gielgud, whose beautiful voice could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire...
DIED. Harold K. Johnson, 71, stoic, tenacious Army Chief of Staff (1964-68); of cancer; in Washington. A survivor of the infamous Bataan death march, in which 8,150 prisoners of war perished on the Japanese-held Philippine island of Luzon during World War II, and a much decorated infantry commander in the Korean...
Craig Norberg, a founder of the men's self-help group RAVEN (Rape and Violence End Now) in St. Louis, says the typical spouse beater is unable to cope with the traditional notion of masculinity. "Not maleness, but the traditional male role, which requires men to be stoic. It requires men to not need intimacy, to be in control, to be the 'big wheel,' and when there is a problem to 'give 'em hell.' The difficulty is that nine out of ten men fail at that list, at least in their own judgment...
...film industry, which once gave its power to, and took its glory from, strong-minded directors, is today run by cautious bosses looking for quick profits in a few restrictive genres. Besides the ubiquitous porno, local audiences embrace movies about gangsters and itinerant swordsmen, family sagas, cartoon fantasies and stoic romances in which the hero and heroine never kiss. The endlessly popular Tora-San movies, which trace the comic misfortunes of a middle-aged wanderer and his family, will soon appear in The Guinness...
Maas offers no happy fadeout with right restored and virtue intact. Marie Ragghianti today is a political pariah; no politician wants to hire the woman who brought down a Governor. She is a teacher of criminology at a Florida community college, consoling herself with the meditations of a stoic: "Have I done something for the general interest? Well, then, I have had my reward." Maas' forensic style and vigorous tempo are ideally suited to Marie's story. The author makes clear that his knowledge of feminine determination is derived from experience. His late wife, Audrey Gellen Maas...