Word: stoicly
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Against this accumulation one sees the Indians' dwindling hopes, illuminated by flashes of courage and desperate efforts to res;st slow annihilation. There were the brilliantly waged wars of chiefs Red Cloud. Little Crow. Crazy Horse and Gall, as well as stoic efforts to save their people by Sitting Bull and Black Kettle...
...Family. Much of the reason for this productive peacefulness lies in the psychology of the Japanese people. Their swift passage out of feudalism in little more than a century has not completely erased the stoic acceptance of a fixed hierarchical order. In contrast to most Americans, Japanese workers are quite willing to bow to managerial authority and place their own desires second to the goals of the company that pays their wages...
Neither man takes chances. Boston never leaves home without his gun, "even to go to church"; Messaros says he straps his holster on before he brushes his teeth. "Fear is something in your mind that has to be overcome," Messaros says. Boston is equally stoic: "Hell, I could die tomorrow at the movies." Still, both feel that their equipment-pistol, blackjack, nightstick, helmet-could be improved upon by putting a sawed-off shotgun in their car. No need to point it at anyone, they say-"just that you come out of the car, and it comes with...
This view of the univesre is a precious legacy. In some respects, it is the vision of a hedon, an atheist, an existentialist, a stoic. Its consciousness is sexual as well as poetic, political as well as phenomenological. "The politics of emotion must appear/to be an intellectual structure," he says in Esthetique du Mal. Of a prototypcial dogmatist, he says
...torments were almost biblical, the protagonists stoic, the resolution anticlimactic...