Word: sheepishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read them in quick succession with an urgent, almost feminine sing-song. He stepped back from the mike for just a second after each one, flashing a sly twinkle or a sheepish shrug as the poem demanded. The crowd loved the shrugs: each one said, What the hell, sounds good, don't it? The boyishness of his manner-you got the idea that the whole role of the Coming Poet strikes him as outrageously funny-endeared him to the audience. They liked him because he is profound, but they loved him be he thinks...
...audience, which is expected to accept the performance at its face rather than at its true value. In considerate society, the audience seldom lets the performer down-in part, as Goffman repeatedly notes, because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...
...drifted in sheepish calm...
Dartmouth Dean Thaddeus Seymour and the student newspaper, which had invited Wallace, sent formal apologies, and the general feeling around the campus next day was one of sheepish embarrassment. It is impossible to embarrass Wallace. He described the demonstrators as pacifists who "don't want to fight the Viet Cong but sure can fight the police" and, alluding to the car-rocking episode, said the students were "expressing academic freedom-and academic freedom can get you killed...
Junior thesis-writers would be able to test the proposition that senior year is the best time for General Education. The new Gen Ed program makes this approach more practicable; after all, the senior who might feel sheepish about taking Hum 2 would be less reluctant to enroll in one of the new upper-level Gen Ed courses. The senior would also be able to use his liberated time to hear that one lecturer he'd always wanted to hear or to complete the extracurricular project he never had time for before...