Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nondenominational Church of God: "I was a lonesome young man, and the church gave me a place to go." In 1946 he finally landed a job lettering a comic magazine; later that same year, he went to teach at a Minneapolis art school. There he finally overcame his shyness long enough to ask Joyce Halverson, an instructor's pretty, blue-eyed sister, for a date. As Charlie Brown's luck would have it, Joyce slipped on a candy wrapper while they were skating and she tumbled on the ice. But she picked herself up unhurt, and soon they...
...Freedom Project, is a civil rights leader who does not want to be a leader. He describes himself simply as an "organizer" and when asked about himself, always brings the conversation around to what is going on in Mississippi. He refuses to be made a leader not because of shyness--although Moses is shy--but because he believes that the people must lead themselves. "The trouble with most leaders," he says, "is that they care less about people than they care about being able to make decisions for people...
...Oswald himself joined the Marines in 1956, he was nicknamed "Ozzie Rabbit" because of his baby face and his reticence in making friends?which was mistaken for shyness. Yet he was twice court-martialed, once for unauthorized possession of a pistol and once for abusive language to a sergeant. And he was unpopular among his barracks mates for his open advocacy of Marxism...
Once in Congress, Lyndon was on a whirlwind rise, and Lady Bird rocketed along beside him. In 1948, when he ran for the Senate, Lady Bird swallowed her shyness, forced herself to travel all over Texas, if only to say howdy at barbecues. On the night before the election, the car in which she was riding careened off the road, flipped over twice in the mud. "All I could think of as we were turning over was that I sure wished I'd voted absentee," recalls Lady Bird. But she hopped out unhurt, hitched a ride, borrowed a dress...
...praise Miss Field I am ignoring the fine performances of the rest of the company. Eunice Brandon, as Laura, handles her long scene with Jim O'Connor especially effectively. Her shyness slowly disappears, then returns as she makes the one human contact of her life and loses it. I wish only that she were a bit shier at the beginning of the play so that the transition to the scene with Jim would seem less abrupt...