Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political fortunes prospered, Lurleen mothered his four children, remaining in the background when they settled into the Governor's mansion in Montgomery in 1963. And in 1966, when Wallace, barred from succeeding himself, set his eye on the White House, Lurleen loyally conquered her own tongue-tied shyness and hid the pangs of advancing abdominal cancer to win the governorship in her own right...
That scene too Hamlin directed as if the lovers were simply applecheeked sweeties with a crush on one another. Motley had the shyness of a boy who bumped into a girl after tennis, was tremendously pleased, didn't know what to say. Miss Heineman, though her lines implied she'd been forward, gave us no sign of it. The lovers treated each other as if they were terribly delicate. One outbreak, one glance unprotected by coyness, and they would no longer look like valentines to the audience. What the actors, and presumably Hamlin, didn't realize about Romeo and Juliet...
...reading your story about Sandy Dennis [Sept. 1], it seemed to me I might have given a wrong impression to your interviewer. We discussed Sandy's "shyness" with most people other than those she has known a long time. I pointed out that her main interests aside from acting were reading, her home, and her animals. In that context, I meant to convey that because of her shyness, she would naturally respond to animals easier than to most people. I could have, with honesty, also included her natural and loving response to children and theirs...
...prodigious worker who relaxes only occasionally at the theater or at his Capri villa, he is personally a conservative dresser, has only one obvious affectation: black, almost jaw-length sideburns. He is noted for shyness, except when it comes to his clients. "I have them all now," he says proudly. And his customers are just as proud that he does. Would it be all right, he asked Gloria Guinness, the woman whom Women's Wear Daily calls "the ultimate," if he told the press that she was an enthusiastic customer? "Tell them, Valentino," said she, "that...
Cynicism & Sophism. Mixing his sophism with some cynicism, Galbraith explained that such shyness will be outgrown before long. Corporate technocrats and government bureaucrats work in concert, he said, because they have the same aims-not a national goal or even maximum profits, but "the promotions, enlarged opportunities, higher salaries and prestige which go with growth." Moreover, since technology-oriented planning is common to both Western capitalism and Eastern European Communism, the two economic systems are "not startlingly different...