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Intersettlement conferences induced agonies of self-consciousness among delegates attuned to the lonely life. When stage fright paralyzed the first Eskimo speaker at a meeting in Frobisher Bay, Donald Snowden, the government man, eased his chair close to block the view of the crowd. "Tell me about the co-op at the George River," he said gently, "and forget about the other people here." Slowly, with the help of men like Snowden, the Eskimos developed the tools they needed: self-assurance, a sense of achievement, pride. "We built this hall to last forever!" said Willi Imudlik of the substantial wooden...
...Both of the major morning Boston metropolitans, the Globe and Herald, ran front-page stories and supplemented them with more than a full page of additional details AEL> After all, there was not much they could do. The Inner Belt has been good copy for years; M.I.T.'s apparent fright constituted an undeniably significant story...
...trial begins," announced Radio Moscow, "with the interrogation of the accused Daniel. At the beginning of the interrogation, he impudently denies the obvious. But then, when the prosecution presents to the court a number of proofs, fright and confusion appear on his slanderous face. Yes, he is being pressed against the wall. Under the weight of the proof, Daniel is forced to admit facts of his criminal activity...
...OTTO PIENE, 37, was a teen-age flak gunner in Germany during World War II. He vividly recalls the incredible light patterns of tracers and the bursts of bombs. Says he: "Fright inspires inventiveness and gives birth to giant monsters." In 1950 he helped found the Group Zero in Düsseldorf, which investigated the effects of light. On his own, he designed "light ballets" like sweeping projections of tracer beams. "I want to demonstrate that light is a source of life which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star...
...severe case of stage fright ruined Harvard's chances for its first Ivy League fencing title as Columbia creamed the Crimson Saturday...