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This is no easy trick for an extrovert-plus, but he performs it creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Humility at the Hip | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...invasion of Costa Rica, had not been aimed at ending tension between the countries. But Nixon found the role of peacemaker forced on him by 1) the understandable U.S. desire to see the little cold war ended; and 2) the persistent belligerence, impossible to ignore, of those two articulate, extrovert Presidents, Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza and Costa Rica's Jose ("Pepe") Figueres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Backyard Visitor | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Church & Athletics. Of the three Kelly daughters, Peggy was the oldest and a cutup, Lizanne the youngest and an extrovert. Grace, the middle one, born Nov. 12, 1929, was shy, quiet, and for years snuffled with a chronic cold. The big, 15-room house in plain East Falls, across the Schuylkill River from the Main Line, was the meeting place for the whole neighborhood. "There was a lawn out back with swings and a sandbox, a tennis court and the usual things like that," says Grace. Summers, the Kelly family had a house on the Jersey shore at Ocean City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...parody, St. George and the Dragonet. In his new show, Freberg plays the part of Richard E. Wilt ("When you think of wilted lettuce, think of me"), a gentle bird watcher and shipping clerk, whose lack of aggressiveness makes Wally Cox's Mr. Peepers seem like a pushing extrovert. Scriptwriters Frank and Doris Hursley have supplied Freberg with some amusing situations and some funny lines. That's Rich should shake down into a successful radio show and may eventually make the move to TV. Currently the program is unsponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...theme or key neurosis of the play is a matter of personal preference. The incapacity of the unloved for normal love, the introvert hiding from an extrovert world, the destructiveness of possessive motherhood are all possible choices. From the impressive stars of the play, Judith Anderson and Mildred Dunnock, the audience might expect some help in choosing, but even the cast appears unsure of what Mrs. Bowles' characters are meant to express. At the heart of the play are two unnatural mother-daughter relationships. In one, an iron-willed mother has crushed her child's personality, in the other...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

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