Word: quietism
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...also leads to the obligatory scene in which his wife (Talia Shire), representing quietism, doubts the necessity of vengeance, so that Rocky can inform her that a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Arduousness follows, an endless subverbal sequence in which the hero trains in the vast primitive fastness of the Soviet wilderness, with only his own fighting spirit to sustain him as he chops wood, lifts rocks and runs up the highest mountain for a socko finish. Crosscut with this lonely ordeal are shots of Drago, who has an entire collective of helpers...
...early 1950s, he moved to the Iraqi city of Najaf, the site of one of the holiest shrines in Shi'ism. He later became a student of Grand Ayatullah Abul Khoei, who would turn out to be Iraq's leading cleric. As Saddam ruthlessly suppressed clerical activism, Khoei advocated "quietism," the belief that the clergy should mainly serve spiritual and social needs, and not focus on matters of state. Sistani quickly distinguished himself as a brilliant theologian, adept at applying religious doctrine to the dilemmas of modern life. (His website, sistani.org offers advice on the propriety of, among other things...
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last August knocked this comfortable quietism sideways. Kohl and Kaifu struggled to live up to allied expectations, but each soon found himself in a political minefield. Kohl had to back off from a suggestion that German soldiers might legally go to the gulf. Kaifu proposed to dispatch troops to noncombat support roles well behind the lines; Japan erupted like a reactivated Mount Fuji...
...rather does not deal with it. His choice of profession summarizes his psychology: he becomes an anesthesiologist. Another way of putting it is that he tries his best to follow his family's tradition of quietism and indifference to large events. But Holland is a small country, and it is impossible to escape from people who are part of his past. If he will not pursue the evidence that will help explain his life's crucial occurrence, the evidence, as it turns out, will pursue him. Like the furies, the facts are inescapable...
Descriptions of quietism on today's campus, especially those made by frustrated student organizers and journalists, too often rely on romanticized and unhistorical references to earlier outbursts of high emotion and demands for sweeping change. It is particularly ironic that some adults who have moved smoothly from the 1960s youth movement to Wall St. or Madison Ave. now scoff at the calm in the Yard. Both groups carelessly downplay the extraordinary influence of events such as the crusade against Southern racism and the threat of being drafted to fight in a secretively pursued foreign war. Forgotten are the significant academic...