Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office until midnight. He likes hiking in the mountains, but since suffering from mild diabetes has had to forgo convivial drinking-mostly vodka. One old friend sees Ching-kuo as "an amalgam of the Chinese tradition and Marxist ideas." What strikes most observers is his strange combination of shyness and power. A Chinese friend perhaps put it best when he said, "Look at his hands-there's the man: coarse, tough, patient...
...ever guessed that it was worth $145 million to him. That is the sum that Trans World Airlines has sued him for-and the sum that a federal judge's ruling last week put in jeopardy after Hughes steadfastly refused to appear in court. Hughes's shyness, ruled the judge, was a "deliberate, willful default...
...sense of the good old adjective, "liberal' education.... In private conversation he had a mastery of words, a voice, a freedom, a dignity, and therefore what one might call an authority, in which he stood quite alone. Yet brilliant man as he was, he never quite outgrew a perceptible shyness or diffidence in the lecture-room, which showed sometimes in a heightened color. Going to lecture in one of the last courses he ever gave at Harvard, he said to a colleague whom he met on the day, 'I have lectured so and so many years, and yet here...
Tales of growing up are generally tiresome to those for whom pimples, shyness and first love are not the crises they once were. The Sky Falls is one of the best novels of childhood to appear in many years, precisely because it is not childish...
...were exposed to it directly. Carpenter's first step was to organize the Sonnenberg-Wiesbaden exchange program for third-to sixth-graders. The pilot project, while slow going at first, soon got into high gear. "After one year of this kind of direct instruction, the children lose all shyness," beams one of the participating Germans, Frau Viehweger. "They speak-naturally not quite correctly, but without inhibition...