Word: stoics
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...practical joker and was expelled for mailing a sick friend some dog droppings. Then came a Dickensian reform school for "difficult boys," followed by a cramming academy under the direction of a terrible-tempered grandson of Robert Browning. Even at stately Stowe, a school he really liked, "Old Stoic" Niven couldn't resist cheating in an exam. He barely made it into Sandhurst, Britain's West Point...
Rabbit, traumatized by Janice's betrayal, first abandons his stoic straitjacket. He is re-awakened to what Updike calls "new areas of sexual and psychic penetration" by a rich teen-aged "hippie" named Jill. He is then confronted directly with the problems which have caused his confusion--Vietnam, racial strife, local revolutionary struggle--when he takes in a young black war veteran. Skeeter attempts to give a metaphysical basis to explain social conditions--something Rabbit instinctively needs...
...long, Americans over 65 have carried their burdens in stoic silence; at last they are speaking out. Mindful of the fact that they constitute 10% of the U.S. population and an estimated 17% of all registered voters, the elderly are mobilizing their political power. This mobilization could become more effective than the much heralded new youth vote because oldsters regularly vote in large numbers and know their needs precisely. Their aim is government redress for inadequate health care, housing, employment and income. Some 6,000,000 have joined politically oriented groups like the National Council of Senior Citizens...
Like Hemingway, Graves was wounded in World War I, and, psychically at least, suffered the death of the verities that had existed prior to 1914. Like Hemingway, Graves is a romantic and a stoic who believes that one way or another love ends badly. While no single image or object can encompass the trajectory of Graves' thoughts on love, there is a Spanish drink that comes close to it. It is called the sol y sombra (sun and shadow). It comes in two layers. The top half is brandy-masculine, dry, bracing; the bottom half is anisette -sweet, insinuative...
...great as is the general ignorance of the specifics of the Indian involvement in American history, the misconception of the Indian as a stoic, silent savage has even greater circulation. As much as the black is an invisible man in a nation that prides itself on seeing what is best for others, the Indian is an unheard one, muted by misrepresentation and myth, in a country that claims to have a special ear for the untutored eloquent. As Dee Brown puts it in the introduction, "Only occasionally was the voice of the Indian heard, and then more often than...