Word: stoicly
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Whatever was happening behind the scenes, the U.N. General Assembly soon reverted to its favorite public activity, speechmaking. The Chinese, all neatly uniformed in Mao tunics, sat in stoic silence as delegate after delegate droned on about a Soviet proposal for an all-nation summit conference on disarmament. The Yugoslav delegate offered his views in English, the Mongolian spoke in Russian, and in the galleries the rows of plastic earphones hummed simultaneously in French and Spanish, like disembodied voices in some Fellini extravaganza...
...consequent in telling of Ivan's character. In Solzhenitsyn's novel they arise from an innate hope which constitutes Ivan's endurance. In the film Ivan appears to rasie himself above his suffering by a superhuman effort of will. He becomes a willful hero rather than Solzhenitsyn's enduring stoic. But there is no possible point of departure for his courage and his emotional moments seem merely histrionic. His day becomes a sublime epic pathetically turning into an unsuccessful melodrama...
Hopper bore these goings on with stoic tolerance, only occasionally interjecting in the midst of one of her conversational spasms a resigned "Oh, Jo." Mrs. Hopper had her own complaint. "Sometimes talking with Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom...
...elegiac sadness. It is a bad time, he suggests, for all. His sociology, to judge by nonfiction accounts, is accurate. But what emerges is less a sense of history than a sense of style. The faultless hat is held over the faultless jacket over the faultless heart. All is stoic gallantry in a tradition that seems, at last, more correct than moving-a special kind of theater. And what is that exotic yet all too familiar sound in a reader's ear? Somewhere in the mythic South, where white pillars are carved with graffiti by Tennessee Williams, Margaret Leighton...
...usual in Hawks pictures, Wayne remains the stoic straight man, the butt of some good-natured gags, who nevertheless comes through whenever it is time for gunplay. He seems as natural and right in his role as a well-worn saddle, even though he wears a Vietnamese montagnard bracelet and a Western belt buckle engraved with a D while he plays a character named Cord McNally in a film set at the end of the Civil...