Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department. And there was no doubt a layer of reserve to be penetrated before easy conversation with him was possible. He did not have a personality that flourished at sherry parties or doughnut-and-cider klatches. Socially, he was in Harvard, but not of it. Once his shyness was breached, however, no one holding a Harvard appointment could have been more helpful, and self-effacingly so. In the last week I worked on my thesis with him, for example, he rearranged his schedule so that I could drop off a chapter with him in the evenings, and pick...
...ineffectual man, a pianist whose love for Peg drew him into this demimonde, though he had once been a cathedral organist in his native Yorkshire. That he was Protestant and Peg Jewish may have contributed, some friends have speculated, to their child's confusion and detachment. Surely, Bill's shyness and Peg's aggressiveness helped to create the split in Sellers. The private man is anonymously dressed ("If you see me when I'm not making a film, you would never know I was in the business"), hiding behind a variety of tinted glasses. The professional man, the possessed performer...
Smith's own posture, however, is very unassuming; her shyness and humility take many by surprise. She remembers last year's University of Connecticut game as the high point of her basketball career. The hoopsters hung on in that dead-even contest to beat UConn in the last 14 seconds of overtime behind Smith's inspired play...