Word: stoic
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Though the Mexican attitude toward bloodshed and danger is traditionally stoic, the deaths of two well-known Mexican sportsmen in the first two days of the race brought some reactions of horror and indignation. A government official publicly branded the race "an imitation of North American customs not suited to Mexican characteristics." The press went off on a crusade. Mexico City's El Universal declared that permitting such dangerous shenanigans was a "crime...
...damned large rat," said the Duke. And there the matter has rested ever since. -Gilbert Murray, Stoic, Christian and Humanist D. E. STANTON Memphis, Tcnn...
Appointment with Danger (Paramount) is the same rendezvous Alan Ladd has been keeping for years as a stoic man of action whose natural habitat is a daydream by Walter Mitty. But this time tight plotting, realistic backgrounds and good casting take much of the curse off the part of the synthetic tough guy who has made dangerous living into a comfortable livelihood for Actor Ladd...
...Life So Nice? Roger Buliard found no "noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the face of. death, but without the softer virtues of pity and compassion. They treat their women, Buliard concluded, as mere objects of comfort, and they occasionally kill rivals to get them. Yet they are capable of a certain philosophical appreciation of the value and transitoriness of life. Buliard is struck...
...eloped with his best friend. When the newlyweds returned, the two boys whipped out revolvers and killed each other. In 1901, Bierce's second son died of pneumonia. Bierce, who later told H. L. Mencken he kept the ashes of one son in a cigar box, uttered a stoic "nothing matters," but weeks passed before he could write a line. When few bought his collected works (1909-12), he knew he was a has-been...