Word: creep
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...Creeps" ought to accept and even welcome their abnormal characteristics, according to Henry A. Flynt '61, a former Harvard student. Flynt delivered a lecture on "The Important Significance of the Creep Personality" to an informal gathering in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night...
...began by describing the Creep as "a person who is falling to become a mature adult by deviating in the direction of 'weirdness' and weakness.'" The Creep is shy, unstylish, and awkward. He does not aspire to the sophistication and assertiveness of the "adulthood ideal...
Because society regards him as abnormal, and even his own biological development seems to challenge his child-like traits, the Creep becomes self-conscious, and may try to emulate his "normal" peers...
...most important. The artist must capture the essence of his subject by reaching beyond a superficial resemblance to express its life movement and very breath. It is said that one of the Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates quietly on his subject or applies himself...
...some of these things are done, an atmosphere of some bounce and energy may creep into the offensively superior blandness of Westminster, and if the Common Market alone can bring Britain to understand its post-war role more clearly, full membership will be worth some Commonwealth hostility...