Word: stoics
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...Byzantine style apse and the lugubrious countenances of the clergy. In the midst of all the pomp and circumstance of the Church and the court nobles, two smirking boyars (nobles) dump huge baskets of gold coins over the young czar's pointy crown. Ivan's gaze remains stoic as if he were merely caught in an everyday downpour. We know immediately that Einstein is on our side; we are certain after the initial bit of hesitation that this is no dry three-hour history lecture. He is prepared to let us use our imaginations about this remote and dark time...
...Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth." Characteristically, he declined the post of poet laureate, but by the time he died of cancer at 63 in 1985, he had become a sort of grumpy unofficial laureate of all that was middling, thwarted and humorously stoic in the contemporary psyche...
...Said a friend who spoke to her in Little Rock: "She wonders, like anyone, why. And why did he get through the day before but not that day, and was there something about that day that could have gone differently that would have saved him from himself?" Even the stoic McLarty has allowed himself to go back over that last day and wonder what might have happened if he and Foster had not agreed to postpone a meeting until the next...
There was a real woman behind the stoic front...
...creating the latest wave. But there is sometimes a dark side to the national thirst to be part of a trend. Jangling deep in the psyche of some souls, it appears, is an irresistible urge to be certified on the 5 o'clock news as a victim, a stoic survivor of sinister forces. Last week Pepsi found itself at the center of one of the weirdest such ripples of the media age, first as alleged victimizer, then as stoic victim...