Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film musicals already under way, it seems she is fully embarked on a second career at the ripe age of 22. As the stage manager, she does not yet consistently manage the stage, except for some fancy tap dancing. She is most effective when she has to portray awkwardness, shyness, winsome young love. How much of this is performance and how much mere exploitation of her rather endearing presence? Twiggy would not be the first performer to build a movie career on presence alone...
...those who have learned to accept labels without questioning, the 1950s produced two generations in a single decade. There was the Silent Generation, so called for its members' apparent shyness about anything that might jeopardize their future security. And there was the Beat Generation, which loudly ridiculed the values the quiet ones were so concerned about. Bruce Cook, the 39-year-old book-review editor of the National Observer, seems divided between the two. In mind and body he is with the Silents, but his heart belongs to the Beats...
...very useful ploy. With a dramatically ostentatious late arrival, a person can virtually guarantee that he will be noticed by other guests or colleagues. It is hard to make a grand entrance if you are the first to arrive. Conversely, lateness can be used as a cover-up for shyness. A bashful latecomer may hope that he will not be noticed, slipping into the room quietly, like a guilty Ariel, and hiding himself in the crowd. There are other advantages as well. Since most parties have dull beginnings, the late arriver can spare himself short eternities of throat-clearing ennui...
...conversion had to wait until he was a shy 13, listening to a visiting evangelist call for converts. He went forward, he recalls, "to open my heart to Jesus," and it happened. "Light flooded my soul and I became a new person. In that moment God took my old shyness away and made me an extravert. He started me talking about him and I haven't stopped since...
...sits quietly at the back of the class, always attentive, always taking meticulous notes. He stares myopically through steel-rimmed glasses and speaks with a halting, stumbling shyness. He has been at the university for years now, studying long nights in his shabby apartment, breaking away only for leafleting or demonstrating. He has become politicized as much by his own loneliness as by history, and any kind of action he may take contains equal parts of activism and self-affirmation. As his sense of isolation increases, so does his political commitment. A subtle, intelligent new movie called The Revolutionary charts...