Word: defiant
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...play is certainly a tract against conformist and the inhumanity it produces, but it goes far deeper than simple propaganda. If the various townspeople who rationalize and stumble their way into the rhino herd are absurd, Ionesco says, so is Berenger, the one man who holds out. His defiant profession of faith in humanity is farcical rather than heroic, showing that individuality in an indifferent universe can be as futile as conformity. At one point, Berenger even longs for the hard green armor of the beasts, but it is too late to change. He proclaims "I am a monster...
...pathetic little idealist who has somehow wandered into an Ionesco play and gives him dignity beneath the sloth. His sleepy Yogi the Bear voice is highly suited for the role and very appealing. The only defect of his performance is that he doesn't seem changed enough and truly defiant in the end. His defiance may be a joke to the audience but it cannot be a joke to himself...
...have to deal with, and who offered his flesh-and-blood body up to crucifixion in the face of very human doubts; the Superstar analogy is just a more or less appropriate metaphor for Messiah. In one of Superstar's climactic songs, "Gethsemane," Jesus sings a doubting, defiant prayer to God (who has an offstage role...
Forming the background of the new Jewish response is, of course, the example of Israel, tough and defiant in a hostile sea of Arabs. "Israel has changed everything," says Rabbi Sholom Ber Gorodetsky of the Lubavitcher group in Crown Heights. "The Six-Day War has given Orthodox Jews a courage they never had before." Israel, in a carefully nonofficial way, has supplied more than example. The first karate classes in Brooklyn were taught by bearded, fifth-generation Israeli Zvi Kasspi, an Israeli army veteran. Another Israeli. Hillel Oman, is listed as a teacher of Hebrew studies at the Yeshiva...
Tough and defiant, President Nixon last week publicly decoded his recent signals to Hanoi: at any moment he chooses, with any frequency he deems necessary, he would order the bombers to fly again. First he pointed out, as he has in the past, that as American ground troops are gradually withdrawn from South Viet Nam, he will carry out his responsibility to protect those that remain from attack. Then he continued: "Now, if as a result of my conclusion that the North Vietnamese by their infiltration threaten our remaining forces−if they thereby develop a capacity and proceed possibly...