Word: shyness
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...over Vietnam. He's an observer not a combatant, and he feels uncomfortable if forced into the fray. So long as his name is only in the by-line, Lacouture is a forceful and persuasive critic. But when his name is shoved into the headlines, his sharpness turns to shyness, his dynamism dissolves into hesitancy...
...Burton puts it, "dance to suit yourself." Dancing to rock 'n' roll has become such a private reverie, in fact, that a partner, except in deference to custom, is not necessary. And that is its great attraction. Since couples neither touch nor even look at each other, all the shyness some men and women have about dancing?clammy hands, missing a beat, stepping on feet, etc.?is removed and, as one club owner says, "Everybody goes off into their own narcissistic...
...more. The mousy girl friend is in analysis and given to morose dissections of her emotions, ranging from jealousy of Melba to frustration about the men who get away. She has a strange preoccupation with necrophilia. When one romance collapses, the mousy girl laments that "social graces are dead, shyness is dead, chivalry is dead, game playing is dead, necking is dead, Mr. Right is dead, expectations of any kind are dead. Only the moment lives...
...nondenominational Church of God: "I was a lonesome young man, and the church gave me a place to go." In 1946 he finally landed a job lettering a comic magazine; later that same year, he went to teach at a Minneapolis art school. There he finally overcame his shyness long enough to ask Joyce Halverson, an instructor's pretty, blue-eyed sister, for a date. As Charlie Brown's luck would have it, Joyce slipped on a candy wrapper while they were skating and she tumbled on the ice. But she picked herself up unhurt, and soon they...
...Freedom Project, is a civil rights leader who does not want to be a leader. He describes himself simply as an "organizer" and when asked about himself, always brings the conversation around to what is going on in Mississippi. He refuses to be made a leader not because of shyness--although Moses is shy--but because he believes that the people must lead themselves. "The trouble with most leaders," he says, "is that they care less about people than they care about being able to make decisions for people...