Word: stoics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's announcement, Arias was not even rumored to be a serious contender for the prize. In Oslo the odds-on favorites among the 93 nominees included President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina, and the World Health Organization. The five-member committee maintained a stoic silence until the formal declaration, which cited Arias for his "outstanding contribution to the possible return of stability and peace to a region long torn by strife and civil war." Afterward, Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik, 75, made clear the committee's intent. "We hope that the award will help...
Unfortunately the filmmakers will not leave it at that. The movie is preachy and laden with speeches that hobble the narrative. Intricate political positions are drawn with a numbing oversimplification. All South African policemen are sadistic slobs with warty faces. Nelson is an immaculate martyr, always stoic. Winnie is a saint. But for all its flaws, Mandela does dramatize a country's deadly turmoil. "South Africa has been locked off for so long," says Woodard. "I'm hoping for other movies. Mandela is just one star in a huge black...
...guns loaded and shot fast. One did not survive by regulations and laws and merely mental, abstract things. Justice was a rougher business, and even at that ran a distant second to coming out of it alive. "The essential American soul," D.H. Lawrence once extravagantly wrote, "is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer...
...April 1985 at the Yale Repertory Theater, staged then as now by Y.R.T. Artistic Director Lloyd Richards. As his interpretation has ripened, Jones has found not only Troy Maxson's destructive fury but also his belly-shaking laughter, his lyric love of tall tales, his quicksilver charm, his stoic sense of duty and honor. & He manages to be at once real and of mythic proportions. The cast around him is also adroit, notably Mary Alice as his long-suffering but ultimately assertive wife, Ray Aranha as his best friend, and Frankie R. Faison, both funny and affecting as Troy...
Still, as he realizes that his time in the valley has come to an end, his stoic acceptance of change falters: "Philosophy failed me now. Land is not land alone, something that simply is itself. Land partakes of what we breathe into it, is touched by our moods and memories." The conclusion to be drawn from The Enigma of Arrival is both heartbreaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction -- of dreams, of reality -- is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers...