The author reports that he owes "a great deal" to the "vision and steadfastness" of Robert Avakian, a fellow Bay Area radical in the 1960s, who has been running his own personal Maoist sect for the last forty years.
It's music of steadfastness and endurance, of uncompromising determination.
Protesters have called this "the Week of Steadfastness," and there is plenty here.
It is an amalgam of steadfastness and diligence, but also courage, recklessness and fierce tenacity.
Politically as well as economically, the circumstances require a mix of steadfastness, boldness and violence.
In "Lupins", where he wants an image of steadfastness, he writes, punningly: "They stood.
But it doesn't seem honest to speak of steadfastness, really.
The WHO programme to eradicate smallpox was a brilliant example of steadfastness, surveillance and human ingenuity.
The quiet palette, it seems, is meant to convey the quiet but crucial values of steadfastness and dedication.
On Iraq, tax cuts and the role of government, President Bush has represented a model of steadfastness.
"This week is the anniversary of 100 days passing since the epic battle of steadfastness in [the protest camps of] Rabaa and El Nahda".
