Word: stoicism
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...role. When they refused, he awarded the part to Richard Boone, who resigned shortly before filming. It was only then that Penn chose a hereditary leader of Canada's Salish tribe, Chief George, to play the old man. It was a momentous decision. Dan George's stoicism and grace give him an almost biblical presence. Sometimes, standing to one side, the chief seems to be the essence of the Cheyenne, waiting for some unnamed event−perhaps the time when the white man uses up all the firewood and moves on forever. He is no less memorable uttering...
Before the war went stale, the black soldier stoically accepted Martin Luther King's proscriptions against violent protest. But such stoicism gave way to impatience, even riots, among black youths. Consequently, many of to day's black soldiers are yesterday's rioters. Also, King and Robert F. Kennedy, the young black's ghetto heroes, have fallen prey to the very violence he had been led to reject...
...particularly delighted by art which says that his most serious hopes and fears are in some way comical. So we recreate Chekhov in our image, make him either a prophet of apocalyptic change, a critic of a dead society, an eloquent voice of hopelessness and stoicism, or all of these...
Marilyn Lovell, enthusiastic about her husband's first flight to the moon, first resisted but then accepted with nervous stoicism the idea of another lunar trip. Against Jim Lovell's advice, she recently went to see the film Marooned, which deals with a trio of astronauts stranded in space, and came home shaken. She had good reason to be: in the film, the flight commander dies. Nonetheless, she managed to maintain firm control over her emotions throughout Apollo 13's flight. "I'm used to it now," she said of the danger of space flight...
Would-Be Hero. Some games, as the Opies note, are little more than statements of vitality, "made bearable, very often, only by the pride that the young take in the practice of stoicism." This is certainly the case with "kingy," a game the authors rate as the leading unofficial sport of British schoolboys (see cut). It is "a ball game in which those who are not He ["It" in the U.S.] have the ball hurled at them, without means of retaliation, and against ever-increasing odds, an element that obviously appeals to the national character. Anyone...