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Here we have the philosophical generality of the French and Germans with the stoical stance of the Spanish and the more colorful imagery of the Russians.
It seems to me you are making the same argument on behalf of unbridled market capitalism, and with the same self-exception: it's always easy to be stoical on other people's behalf!
You mention her "optimism"; I would prefer the word "cheer," for I think Powell was deeply pessimistic in many ways--in the grand old Stoical manner--and that it was this pessimism that permitted her to throw herself into life and living with such abandon.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
In the lofty Gothic interior, Donatello’s seven sculptures at the high altar include a stoical Crucifixion and large bronze reliefs narrating St. Anthony’s miracles.