Word: shyness
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...curious self-detachment of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 5−mortared with solid ribs of shyness, intellectualism, and an abiding sense of correctness −is the base of his perplexing personality, and still puzzle of the politicos...
Despite his popularity, many feel Parsons presents a cold, rather impersonal exterior. As one graduate student in sociology explains, while "his overt behaviorial manifestations" are not warm, his great interest in students indicates otherwise. Nearly all who know him attribute his reserve to "excessive modesty" and shyness. After a few cocktails at a party, one friend jokes, his real warmth begins to glow. Similarly, while he usually speaks with painstaking care, his "Parsonian Prose" colors a bit when he defends Oppenheimer...
...humor, like all gall, is divided into three parts, 1) slapstick, 2) situation comedies, 3) synthetic shyness. Last week a baker's dozen of high-priced comics was laboring hard in all three varieties spraying each other with Seltzer, spinning out plots as remote from reality as life on the moon, or being browbeaten by guest stars and fellow actors...
...best arguments for emancipating women from the archaic system, said handsome Prime Minister Nehru, are Indian women themselves. "I am proud of their beauty, grace, charm, modesty, shyness, intelligence and spirit of sacrifice," he said. And, though he did not mention his sister (India's High Commissioner in London) by name, he went on: "Every woman who has been sent abroad has brought credit to India." India's half-dozen women M.P.s cheered...
...Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a painful shyness and a distaste for the rough and tumble of Tory politics. After a typical Eden speech, delivered with its customary earnestness. Winston Churchill once grumped: "My God, he used every cliché in the English language except 'God is love' and 'Gentlemen will please adjust their dress...