Word: stoics
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...student at Harvard Divinity School and a community activist with the Boston-based Queer Asian Pacific Alliance, said gay Asian Americans face societal pressures to conceal their sexual identities and to maintain a "stoic forbearance...
...barmaid mother Nellie Beatrice. Madeline, the lost love Jimmy pines for, is based on Stella Linden, a rep- company actress who first encouraged Osborne to write. At 21 he married actress Pamela Lane, whom he transformed with little rouge or camouflage into Alison. He photocopied Pamela's stoic bearing, her suspicious relatives, even her Dear John letter of farewell when she'd finally had enough...
...legacy of ancient Rome -- the immense residue of form and narrative from the classical past. There seems to be no evidence one way or the other about Poussin's religious life or the strength of his faith. Probably he was neither pious nor a freethinker, but a stoic who could, when required, perform as a remarkable religious painter, as the second series of his The Seven Sacraments shows. His early Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, 1628, sticks in the mind because it is such a singular combination of ferocity and decorum -- the torture of a saint by evisceration, a live...
Jimmy's counterpart Cliff is a stoic, but Marmor takes this impertubability too far. Cliff may be a "noman's land" between Jimmy and Alison, but he is also clever, and Marmor sometimes allows humorous lines to go by without giving them the wit they deserve...
Russian Prez Boris Yeltsin made his standup comedy debut during a press conference at the White House, mugging with his interpreter and causing even the stoic Veep Al Gore to crack up. But by all accounts, progress between the U.S. and Russia seems serious. Both agreed to speed up the timetable of dismantling warheads as required by START II agreement reached last year. Clinton also boosted his Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader...