Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conferences these results are correlated, and if possible conclusions are drawn. For example, the psychiatrists may know that a man is interested in government, its but tends toward shyness and an inferiority complex, that that he is friendly and dependent on others. When Miss Savage compares the results of her tests with what the psychiatrists know about the man, she can see which questions are accurate and useful in appraising the man, and which are useless and false...
Thimbles, Cards and Rope. Psychiatrist Douglas McGlashan Kelley, who is director of the psychopathic ward in San Francisco Hospital, teaches simple tricks to victims .of certain mental diseases. His theory: patients who have withdrawn into themselves from shyness, inferiority complexes or mild schizophrenia (split personality) can become the life of the party if they are taught parlor magic. The tricks they learn, said Dr. Kelley, "require no brains and can't go wrong...
...masks of smiles and graciousness: no one knew the Duchess' thoughts as she whirled through the streets she had not seen for years, looking for vanished landmarks; or the Duke's as he entered the White House where "Silent Cal" Coolidge once volubly tried to relieve his shyness; or whether he remembered the Library of Congress, where once, with an injured arm, he shook hands for hours with thousands of people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted, courted, toadied...
Last week sturdy, baggy-trousered Mr. Wallace sat unobtrusively on the Convention platform, hearing his name booed and wondering what all the rumpus was about. With his grey-haired, brown-eyed wife sat Eleanor Roosevelt. Afterward Mrs. Roosevelt wrote: "I have always felt in him a certain shyness and that has kept him aloof from some Democrats, but now that he will be in close touch with so many of them I am sure they will soon find in him much to admire and love...
...dance as a primitive social manifestation. On the side she taught dancing, formed dance groups. In 1936 Miss Dunham persuaded the Rosenwald Foundation to send her to the West Indies to study the dances of Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including the Ag'ya, a Martinique fighting dance which she put on at Chicago's Federal...