Word: skittishness
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...noble stab at identity, though hardly necessary. At 51, Bill Copley is a sophisticated modern whose skittish lines and comic-strip teases have been displayed from Amsterdam to Albuquerque. His hangup, he confesses is humor. "People are shy of humor in painting," he says. "They think it has to be a serious matter. Well, humor is a serious matter. It's the only thing we have between ourselves and pessimism...
What has made stock traders so skittish? As might be expected in a market that has had no single, climactic break, there is no single, overpowering reason. Instead, there are several reasons. Among them...
...interact--that would be "cheap social engineering." The solution is to recruit Masters who are committed to the intellectual goals of the university and to the social goals of the Houses. Heimert no doubt sees himself as this kind of compound figure. But his whole disposition make him skittish about organizing other people's lives. "I don't plan to be a cruise director around here," he says...
...special presidential panel that has been invetigating the SST for several months has uncovered new sources of opposition. Many airlines have become skittish about the mammoth financial outlay it would take to buy new fleets of SSTs, and several airline executives have told the presidential board they hope the SST is scrapped. Budget-conscious government officials are also having second thoughts about the $1 billion they are spending in chunks to get the first SST prototypes in the air. And all these fiscal arguments ignore a more basic objection: the right of Americans to live in their already-polluted cities...
...office take that followed left Leven's backers feeling skittish. Benjamin Ginsberg & Sons --one of the two principal backers-- threatened to throw Leven Enterprises out of the building, which Ginsberg owns. But Leven, who himself owns the equipment, furnishings, and stage inside the buildings, refused to go unless he took the whole cast and crew with him. The resulting negotiations turned up in a Boston After Dark article by Larry Stark. So, there it all was, right out there in front of the public. Finally, Leven ended the stalemate by accepting more of the financial responsibility. And so--in accord...