Word: shyness
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...opposes all psychiatry or that he wants to free even incompetent patients who can't feed themselves. Neither is true. But at a time when psychiatry's power has grown dramatically--when it seems normal to grow up taking Ritalin and then graduate to Prozac, when even shyness is treated with pharmaceuticals--his views are worth revisiting. And the Yoder case offers an ideal venue in which...
However, at many parties where alcohol is out of the picture all together, professors develop ways to compensate for student shyness. Mansfield has noticed this shyness to a degree among his students, usually as a trait that is more pronounced in males due to their need to prove a certain degree of manliness. (Note: see the professor’s upcoming book.) Mansfield said he tends to approach more quiet students by asking them more simple questions—where they are from or what they watch on television. He also tries to tell them jokes. Once students feel comfortable...
...father nicknamed him "Bolbol" - Arabic for a little bird. Mohammed El Amir recalls his son as a timid boy who avoided fights or squabbles between friends. "In his behavior, my son was almost like an angel," he said. "He is like a virgin girl in his politeness and shyness. Growing up he never got into mischief, he was soft spoken and God blessed him with a beautiful face...
...School Committee has already given Simmons a political education, her friends and supporters say. Several friends who have known Simmons since the 1970s say she has grown up significantly in public life, leaving behind early shyness and learning to be more tactful in her criticisms. And though she often talks about “visions” and “dreams,” supporters say she has come to accept the trade-offs of the political process...
...long sheets are unloaded, the books bought and the parents pried away, the freshmen meet their mentor groups for an event called Adventure Day. Upperclassmen lead the groups and a faculty or staff member through a series of team-building exercises designed to help the "first years" overcome their shyness. In one exercise they must get every team member and a full glass of water to an "island" several feet away by swinging on a rope. In another they have to turn over a small tarp they are standing on, without touching the imaginary "poisonous goo" outside the tarp...