Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate project on the same lot was Top Leading Man Jimmy Stewart, 64, so he consoled Bette with an invitation to lunch. "How come you never asked me out when you were one of the most sought-after bachelors in Hollywood?" wondered Bette. With just the right note of shyness, Stewart replied, "I never knew you wanted to go out with me." Reported Bette later: "It took me 41 years to land even a lunch date with...
...think all the rest of us have too. Mr. Halberstam spoke several minutes ago about the lack of awe for figures in respect which The Crimson taught the people of his generation. Well, saying we learned a lack of awe is like saying that Spiro Agnew has overcome shyness in the White House. It was like a sense of awe was not the biggest trouble we had to overcome. I think that no matter what the bad consequences of those years might be, and I have in mind. The Independent, University gifts, etc. that it did keep The Crimson strong...
...Hungarian immigrant who came to Painesville, Ohio, in 1910. As Don remembers, "I always wanted to do anything to the best of my ability. I always got upset, even in grade school, whenever I thought anybody was giving less than full effort." His shyness almost kept him out of the game he loves. He missed the opening football practices as a freshman at Painesville's Harvey High School, because he had the measles and was later too embarrassed to try out for the team. The coach talked him into trying anyway, and he went on to star for three...
...silent, and they just stared," Coles remembers. But his own shyness proved disarming. In the first volume of the Children series, he describes one visit to a poor family: "There were no chairs. We stood there, shuffling and anxious. Finally I told them of my nervousness and asked if I might sit on the floor. I started telling them about myself, my life and my interests." When he stopped, the black mother patted his knee and said, "We will pray for you and make...
Perhaps, having talked out his life to the brink of print, he has once more been overcome by a sudden affliction of shyness, and he trembles in the gusts of exposure that simply the announcement of the book has sent through his sanctuary. It must be very hard for an authentic mystery to go public, and the spectacle may merit some sympathy. For all his trophies, his scrapbooks, his power, his billions, Howard Hughes, says Clifford Irving -and the judgment has the ring of truth-"is a very vulnerable...