Word: stoics
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...artful oater, McCarthy is concerned more with the what-was of storytelling than with the what-next. In McMurtry's Old West, cowboys ride off in clouds of eventful folklore. McCarthy's brooding buckaroos fade slowly, like denim, into a meticulously authenticated past. The novels are both stoic laments for the vanishing wrangler and lively repositories of regional landscape, foods, clothes, gear and idioms--enough of them in Spanish to suggest the coming of the bilingual novel...
...class orchestra that has been performing for a little more than three decades, the Berlin Symphony was directed on Sunday by Joseph Silverstein, who currently heads the Utah Symphony. An unusually liberal expression of enthusiasm in the conductor was immediately apparent; his smiles were a welcome divergence from the stoic grimaces of most highly-acclaimed conductors. Also absent was any indication of restraint within the orchestra; the woodwinds leapt directly into Brahms' Variations on a theme by Haydn only a few moments after Silverstein took his position at the front of the stage...
Nebraska's Osborne Retires For 25 years Tom Osborne kept a stoic face while patrolling the sidelines at Nebraska. But even he couldn't hold back the tears upon announcing his retirement to his team at a meeting Wednesday...
...hulking figure who wanders up-and-down the sidelines. Sometimes he yells out to the field, while at other times he is silent and stoic. There is nothing in his appearance nor in his demeanor which emits weakness aside from the crutches which hinder his motion...
Yossarian himself is rarely given the opportunity to participate in the deft comic timing that is going on all around him, which only adds more humor to his plight. As Yossarian, Leach remains stoic and earnest, but inevitably boring compared to his neurotic comrades. Watching him grow increasingly frustrated at their madness gives the audience fodder for amusement rather than a plea for sympathy. Leach portrays the perfect Yossarian--a man who has as many cyclical complexes as those around him, but whose personality grows pale in comparison to the army-green circus going on around...