Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This play traces the relationships between a Southern belle mother, Amanda Wingfield (Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes); her son Tom (Peter Mitchell), a poet starved for adventure; and her daughter Laura (Jeanne Simpson), a painfully shy cripple. Throughout the play, Ms. Wingfield battles Laura's shyness and conspires to introduce her daughter to a "gentleman caller...
After prolific high-school years, Ryan arrived at Harvard amid a folk music renaissance. She kept writing songs, lost her shyness about singing and encountered Harvard's a capella scene, a discovery which altered her focus to vocals and changed the course of her career...
...character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does not mesh with her reserved shyness...
...Work like Kagan's suggests that a chain may be uncovered linking behavioral traits like shyness to a brain function," Matthysse said...
...What is remarkable is the connection between a psychological trait and the autonomic nervous system that Professor Kagan has uncovered," Matthysse said. "Before, it was thought that shyness was an irreducible personality trait--no one thought that it might represent an overactive nervous system...