Word: introverted
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...time-consuming, realize how much of value I missed in the academic opportunities available to me which I could not think touching because of my being busy with the Crew. gains of this experience, however, are surely considerations to a degree. I can't say that I was an introvert before the experience nor really an after it. It surely did do much, however, in getting out of my own individual world into the wide, wide of many delightful people. This has been an asset incalculable value and pleasure to me. Since I felt I never achieve this because...
Brilliance & Temperament. In Jânio Quadros, Brazil got a curious blend of introvert and extravert, a man of wide learning whose political thought borrows from Lincoln and Jefferson, who is a hardworking, conservative-minded public servant in office, yet who campaigns with a ward politician's gallus-snapping appeal for the mass vote, promising all things to all men. He is a man whose life has been studded with flaring spurts of brilliance and temperament. The son of an upcountry gynecologist with roving ways who was finally shot dead at 68 by the irate husband...
...carry him through inevitable slumps. As a 19-year-old kid out of Commerce, Okla., Mantle was bewildered by the big money and the big publicity that swamped him when he took over the job of Joe DiMaggio in the Yankees' centerfield. Mantle is still a shy, stubborn introvert, who now manages to relax enough among teammates to be judged a wry dugout wit, is respected for playing while injured...
That Cozzens fellow is certainly remarkable. Snob, introvert, hermit-all this, and a proud Anglo-Saxon blueblood too. Do you think poor greaseballs like me will ever be able to appreciate the genius of this...
...Thailand's Dr. Prasop Ratanakorn reported a high percentage of schizophrenia: 72% of all mental illness. Reason for the high incidence, he said, lies in the country's culture, which creates an introvert type of personality. The Thai religion (Buddhism) forbids aggressiveness, teaches contentment and moderation "to an immoderate degree," thus encouraging lack of initiative and a turning away from reality. This also helps explain why nearly all Thai schizophrenics are quiet and "biddable...