Word: stoics
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...Elba as he waited for the tide of opinion in France to change? No one could say. At midweek, a television set was wheeled into the conference room at the Western White House for the benefit of the staff; but in his study, according to his aides, the stoic President watched no part of the committee's historic debate on his future...
...touches the heart of these attitudes: a reflecting distance, a refusal to be swallowed up or entangled in love, but a constant keeping at it, despite difficulties, hurts, and humiliations. It is as if the old shibboleth of feminine passivity had grown into a kind of tolerance, almost stoic selectivity that helps make both men and women stronger...
...Native Stoic. Why would a nation that once dreamed so grandly settle for so little? Viet Nam, as Corson sees it, was something worse than a defeat: it was a failure. And this failure, like a bad marriage that does not end, has demoralized, corrupted and embittered, as a simple defeat would not have. Viet Nam is the name of a catastrophe to the spirit. A fatally casual adventure-in-excess has done to America, he argues, what crossing the Rhine did to the Roman Empire in 6 A.D., what invading Holland did to Spain in the 16th century...
...author's "hopeful" scenario requires neither a new morality nor even a new lifestyle. Instead Corson prescribes a '70s revival of old-fashioned American character. Lots of hard work, lots of sacrifice. Like a native Stoic-a Marine Corps Marcus Aurelius- Corson sees no true alternative to doing one's duty abroad to the Third World and doing one's duty at home to the Other America of the poor and the disenfranchised. Nothing less can exorcise the failure of Viet...
...this Vidal has at least been faithful to the content, style and tone of Burr's own writing. The kinship of author and subject goes beyond elegant barbs at the high and mighty. Vidal seems especially appreciative of Burr's almost classical stoic outlook, a view reflected in Vidal's own works. Yet the question remains, why read a kind of digest of the life of Aaron Burr when there are sympathetic biographies and Burr's own letters and diaries available? The answer: Most of us will not take the trouble. In the interests of Burrian...