Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swinnerton has had a somewhat difficult life. Much of Young Felix is autobiographical. He was born in a suburb of London and as a child went through various struggles to achieve both a personality and an education. This has marked him with a shyness which is now less a matter of reality than a survival of what, I imagine, was an earlier manner. He was associated with a publishing house at an early age, and is now literary adviser and reader to Chatto & Windus in London. Many of his novels have been written under the most trying circumstances, when...
Charles D. Isaacson will speak on "How to Listen Intelligently to Opera" next Monday, October 29, in the Payne Concert Hall. This lecture, which has been arranged by Professor W. R. Spaulding of the Department of Music, will be for the purpose of ridding so many students of the shyness that is felt for super-classical music. Mr. Isaacson illustrates his points by having opera stars sing parts from some of the better known operas followed by a brief resume of the story of the opera. He has gone all over the world giving his lectures during the past eight...
Gatti. This impresario is personally very interesting, a man whose grave dignity of face, figure, speech and manner is of public note. His intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk...
...have seen babies bashfully refuse to perform before grown-ups, in the same way, even when cookies are offered as reward; sucking their fingers, smiling at their elders, and scraping the ground with one foot is an excess of embarrassed shyness...
...This "shyness" is as contagious as enthusiasm. Have we got to have a curtain, like the substitute organist, behind which to perform? All that is needed is a feeling for the team strong enough to carry everything before it. And above all there is no need to save our voices for the Yale game...