Word: shyness
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Temporary Halt. "Authors are never shy," observes Author McKenney (of other authors), "not even about details which leave the reader ashy-hued." But fortunately, her Love Story is sufficiently veneered with shyness to keep the apples in the reader's high cheekbones: though it is always a bit vulgar, it is never coarse. It takes the reader through a tragicomic record of Lyman ups & downs, including the death of Sister Eileen in an automobile accident, and draws to a close just before the Lymans and their three children take off for Europe...
...auditorium filled up and overflowed into a smaller chapel downstairs. Classes had to be canceled altogether. Some speakers came forward boldly and eagerly, others were so overcome with shyness that they had to abandon the attempt and come back later to try again. Some broke down completely...
...uncomplimentary legends began to cluster about Attlee's retiring and "colorless" personality. Such cracks as "An empty limousine drew up at the gate and Attlee stepped out" or "This would never have happened if good old Attlee had been alive" became standard cocktail-party fodder. Attlee's shyness is not that of an insecure or a frightened man. He wants to be alone because he likes it that way. In committee meetings, at parties or in the House of Commons, he seems to have the gift of becoming invisible. As the debate in the House grows hotter...
...much the same kind of programs: Munch's devotion to the moderns is second only to Koussevitzky's. But they would find it a little harder to know the man than his music. Munch's easy assurance on the podium is matched by an often moody shyness away from...
Despite his shyness, he is a crack salesman who throws no artistic tantrums. Far from turning out designs with offhand sureness, he works them over painstakingly until the client is satisfied. He also has an almost hypnotic power to impress, persuade and convince the toughest tycoon. Even the American Tobacco Co.'s late George Washington Hill, who used to frighten advertising men out of their wits, wilted under Loewy's gentle suasion. He paid him the whopping fee of $50,000 just for designing a new white package for Lucky Strike in 1942 ("Lucky Strike green has gone...