Word: shyness
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...prefers reading or modeling clay birds (eagles, mostly) in his office to jollying up his colleagues in the Senate cloakroom. On the stump "he's miserable at working crowds," says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, a friend and supporter. Yet Hart this winter has worked hard to overcome his shyness and to press flesh cheerfully. "At times he is shy and withdrawn. But he has a great sense of humor," says Colorado Congressman Timothy Wirth...
Bowie, who speaks frequently if not persuasively of his shyness, says he created characters to mask his own feelings of inadequacy. "I really didn't feel back then I had too much to show," he says. "What would I do up on a stage? The only thing was to try and conjure up a figure to do the performance for me because I felt I was much safer playing roles. I was writing plays for these people, minimusicals." This, in turn, took on its own dark corollaries, with some assistance from various controlled substances. "I found," Bowie says, "that...
...game show. Percy's questions span what he calls the deranged world from Descartes to "Dear Abby." The reader is provided multiple-choice answers. None are wrong, but some are more correct than others. Sample question: "If you are a shy person, is it better to accept your shyness, or to seek help from a psychotherapist?" Sample answers: "It is better to seek help from a psychotherapist because it is better not to suffer than to suffer ... It is better to read a book about how to get over being shy, because one might learn a helpful thing...
Conrad's responses: 1. Middleton (Middleton); 2 Shyness (shyness); 3 Old movies (old movies); 4. No answer (make a successful wedding); 5. England (England); Total; 5 correct...
...right that Mead portrayed young Samoans as far more permissive than they actually are. His explanation for this is that Mead's only source was what the teenage girls she was studying told her, and they probably exaggerated and lied to her both to tease her and out of shyness. Freeman also concludes that Mead was mistaken in believing that adolesence in Samoa is without trauma. He cites statistics showing that teenage delinquency in Samoa can run as much as ten times that of some western cultures, the peak year for a youth's first conviction being at 16 years...