Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson's father permitted him to attend Harvard as a "special student." During his two years in Cambridge his letters bubble with reports of avid study, vast reading and literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large...
...needed. Once in a while, his mother still worked as a scrubwoman. "It's not the money," she explained in her broken English. "I'm just lonesome for my friends." At 39, Joe was beginning to grey at the temples. He gradually lost some of his shyness, cracked an occasional joke...
...rehearsal for the London première of Peter Grimes, Composer Britten was all over the stage, his enthusiasm overcoming his shyness, begging his singers to act their parts instead of grimacing and posturing. There were few in the Met's cast who didn't realize what they were up against. Soprano Regina Resnik is a Britten veteran: she had sung in his Rape of Lucretia in Chicago last year (TIME, June 9). But Tenor Frederick Jagel, who sings the leading role, was worried: "This is so tough dramatically that it becomes tough musically...
...Testament is a plain-speaking pipe-smoking Presbyterian minister named Ernest Findlay Scott. For most of his 78 years, English-born Dr. Scott has been writing about Christianity and teaching it. For 19 years he was at Union Theological Seminary, where former colleagues still recall his shyness, forceful lectures...
Einstein is probably happiest among children, with whom he loses all his shyness and whom he keeps in gales of laughter. His kindness to children is proverbial. One little Princeton girl used this to good advantage: she got him to do her arithmetic homework for her. When suspected, she confessed simply: "Einstein...