Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern was to encourage undergraduates to overcome their shyness," Ozment said. "If this system were set up, this would make it easier for students to approach faculty...
...wanted him to read them and at the same time I didn't--an uneasy mix of pride and shyness that has never changed in me very much when someone asks to look. The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation...for me it always wants to be sex and always falls short--it's always that adolescent handjob in the bathroom with the door locked...Nowadays writing is my work and the pleasure has diminished a little, and more and more often that guilty masturbatory pleasure has become associated in my head with the coldly clinical...
...some reason, apparently, students do not want contact with professors. As an Undergraduate Council report on SCR's notes, "Most masters have horror stories about SCR members coming to lunch, and students ignoring them." The Council's report concludes that student disinterest is generally due to ignorance and shyness...
...recent editorial, "The public demands that (the royal family's) members embody fantasies which are contradictory: for freshness and sophistication, for novelty and stability." Paradoxically, that is precisely what the royal couple have been able to do, especially Diana. With her mixture of conservativism and modishness, of shyness and assurance, she conveys both continuity and spontaneity...
...plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with a "trace of shyness." The great intimidator confessed to being "afraid of the dark," as well as of "dogs, horses, strangers." He did not lack that rarest trait of the possessed, a sense of humor. He loved Dickens. He translated Mark Twain. When the mood was upon him, possibly after a few absinthes, he strummed...