Word: shyness
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What an amazing man he is. Simple, stalwart, with his waving hair, his clinging eyes, his dreamy voice? yet for all this shyness, this modesty, both in personality and in print, a furious and insistent egotist. His future, it seems to me, depends largely on his ability or inability to come to some conclusion about himself. He should go a step farther in his egocentric career. He should come out boldly to himself with the statement that he undoubtedly believes what many of his critics announce. Why not say it out loud, Mr. Anderson: "I am the American Balzac...
...Fradd. The regulations governing freshman physical training permit no man to be excused because of physical disability. "The layman's idea that the gymnasium is no place for the physically unfit is absolutely wrong" said Mr. Fradd. "It is just the place where he should go. Much of his shyness comes from his hesitation to exhibit his infirmity, and the impression that there is nothing...
...Scotti? This fellow of wisdom, wit and a sardonic smile, lost his customary poise in this outburst. A look of embarrassment and shyness was on his face, which is of that long, rather gaunt cast seen often in Italians. He bowed and stammered. He spoke a few heavily accented words of appreciation to the audience, and then spread out his arms, signifying that words failed...
Swinnerton has had a somewhat difficult life. Much of Young Felix is autobiographical. He was born in a suburb of London and as a child went through various struggles to achieve both a personality and an education. This has marked him with a shyness which is now less a matter of reality than a survival of what, I imagine, was an earlier manner. He was associated with a publishing house at an early age, and is now literary adviser and reader to Chatto & Windus in London. Many of his novels have been written under the most trying circumstances, when...
Charles D. Isaacson will speak on "How to Listen Intelligently to Opera" next Monday, October 29, in the Payne Concert Hall. This lecture, which has been arranged by Professor W. R. Spaulding of the Department of Music, will be for the purpose of ridding so many students of the shyness that is felt for super-classical music. Mr. Isaacson illustrates his points by having opera stars sing parts from some of the better known operas followed by a brief resume of the story of the opera. He has gone all over the world giving his lectures during the past eight...