Word: introverted
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...vain Vidal, Charity soon lands in a broken elevator with a claustrophobic tax accountant named Oscar, played by John P. Keefe '01. Oscar's phobia takes on manic proportions and becomes oppressive. But once safely out of the elevator, Keefe provides a compelling portrait of a bumbling introvert looking for love, but does not develop his character any further. As the long first act ends, the audience is firmly rooting for Charity and her worryingly normal boyfriend...
...with the most artificial and insincere parts of the process: bonding with the local party pooh-bahs, pretending that donors are friends, feigning affection for the media horde. "He loves the work of government but not the work of getting elected," says a former adviser. "The guy's an introvert. Putting himself out there is an act of enormous will. He tries and tries and tries, and then you see him withdraw into himself, switch on the autopilot and plod along. And when that happens, his capacity for work is never diminished, but his capacity for joy--the light touch...
...child's first tasks are to walk and talk and understand his little universe. Newton, the 17th century's formidable prodigy, simply enlarged the project. The first of his family of Lincolnshire yeomen to be able to write his name, Newton grew into a touchy, passionately focused introvert who could go without sleep for days and live on bread and wine, and, at an astonishingly precocious age, absorbed everything important that was known to science up to that time (the works of Aristotle and, after that, the new men who superseded him: Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes and Galileo, who died...
...Vader's old lightsaber, so he can someday give it to Luke? Such cloyingly nostalgiac satisfactions pale compared to Luke's arcanely scored hatred for Vader and to Han's martyr-ship in the carbonite chamber! The satisfactions of a prequel turn the the Star Wars universe into an introvert, a narcissus...
...diffident David did two things: he became an introvert and stuck close to the family, and he focused on school and achievement. Says Phillip, now a dentist: "He knew what it was he had to do." Sonia recalls, "If he got even one question wrong, he'd be very upset with himself." It was A's in everything, math, science--and English. Six months after starting school, David settled into the language, thanks to an English-as-a-second-language program and the miracle of TV. "We watched The Three Stooges," Phillip says. "We picked up a few phrases here...