Word: introverted
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...traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching a chef. Each food station around the reception room creates an environment. The sushi bar. Or the taco bar. Or fettucini Alfredo. There's drama, action in front of the guest...
...platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives." It is not a precarious dive to Louganis, a sensitive introvert whose fear of heights relents only "when there's water underneath...
...humorless kid. I was not an entertainer; I was very grim." Frankie Irving's view of her son is less harsh: "He was not an exuberant or overenthusiastic child, although I don't think it's quite accurate to label him as an introvert. I think he kept a lot of things to himself." Classmate Charles C. Krulak, now a lieutenant colonel...
Part of the bad blood is a basic personality clash. Rabin is a moody, taciturn introvert who is visibly uncomfortable with crowds. Peres is an outgoing gladhander who exudes an easy charm and tosses off aphorisms in at least four languages. Their public antagonism dates back to the aftermath of the 1973 Middle East war, when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party...
...clinician, Jung pioneered in word-association techniques and dream analysis. The characters in his own dreams included Salome, Siegfried, Elijah, and once, Freud as an Austrian customs agent. Jung the theoretician made his name synonymous with such terms as archetype, introvert and extravert. Jung the religious healer believed the goal of psychiatry was to release and develop the divine within each individual. He broke with Freud by placing unsatisfied spiritual hungers rather than repressed sexuality at the center of personality disorders. Freudians could always counter that those pangs are just another symptom of stifled libido...