Word: stoicly
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Patient, comprehending and stoic, looking in his bush jacket as if he had just come in off the veld, John Huston supervised his mustangs with detachment. He probably said as much about himself as about the film when he told the cast: "It is about people who sell their work but not their lives...
...writers equate the post-bellum fate of their region with the universal fate of man, and identify decline with tragedy. Amid romanticized passivity, violence erupts in Gothic melodramas of rape, murder and madness. Among the few exceptions: some of William Faulkner's Negroes, who achieve the dignity of stoic endurance. Unfortunately, the passion seems to be draining out of this school; the magnolias are all too frequently stained with tired blood...
...good will and strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...
...probably some ten to 15 years after Jesus) to a prominent family in a prominent city. Tarsus in Cilicia, famed for its wealth and culture, was 1,000 years old in Saul's time, had a population of about 500,000, and was one of the centers of Stoic philosophy. Un like most of the other early Christians, Paul was a city sophisticate and always remained one; where the peasant authors of the Gospels took their figures of speech from nature (fishing, sowing, threshing and shepherding), Paul made urban metaphors - games in the stadium, business in the forum, triumphal...
...bodily life. Adolescents, reports Clark University's Robert Kasten-baum, manage to dissociate themselves from ideas of death as from everything else past or future - they live in an "in tense present." Faith & Fear. Editor Feifel questioned adults on "What does death mean to you?" Answers ranged from stoic accept ance of the inevitable to welcoming the "precondition for the 'true' life of man." Surprisingly, intensity of religious belief is no index to acceptance of death, and the most vociferous exponents of belief in a life beyond death have proved, in Dr. Feifel's sampling...