Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief. His name -- another misfortune -- is Harry Hogge, and he is played by the redoubtable Robert Duvall. Harry is, naturally, stern but forgiving, all business on the track, a free and playful spirit away from it -- as much a fantasy as Cruise's neostud. But Duvall finds an odd shyness in Harry; he doesn't assert goodness, he just kind of, you know, behaves it. Duvall not only grounds his character in reality; he almost succeeds in grounding the whole picture in it as well. Anyway, he gives those grownups who happen to wander in where they are not wanted...
...wrong direction: toward less student-faculty contact and more alienation in an already institutional department. Only months after Richard J. Light, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, concluded that students who miss the benefits of the College's advising system are victims of their own negligience or shyness, the Government Department has ratified a policy which will only alienate its undergraduates...
...romantic comedy lies at the heart of the production. As the play opens, timid Robin Oakapple (Michael Short) is attempting to woo the lovely Rose Maybud (Karen Thompson). Unable to overcome his shyness and reveal his true feelings, Robin instead convinces Richard Dauntless (Colum Amory), his foster brother, to talk to Rose for him. When the seafaring Richard sees the charming Rose, he breaks his promise to Robin and becomes engaged to Rose himself...