Word: timidating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advocate. After Harvard, Eliot went to study in Paris for a year ("on the old man's money"), and in a Left Bank flat wrote his first significant poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the portrait of an aging man reviewing a life frittered away between timid hopes and lost opportunities...
...Will to Win. Burnham is convinced that full-scale war with Russia can be avoided if the U.S. is firm enough. He scoffs at the timid notion that it is dangerous to provoke the Communists. "Communists are never 'provoked'; if they sometimes seem provoked, that is only a rehearsed bit of acting ... Experience uniformly proves that Communists are always emboldened to further aggression by friendship ... It is from firmness and power that they yield and retreat...
Britain's Geoffrey Gorer, critic extraordinary of Africa, Japan, Russia and the U.S., has turned suddenly timid before his own country. In "Some Notes on the British Character" for the final issue of Horizon (TIME, Nov. 28), Gorer first disqualifies himself as an expert ("I cannot make such an analysis; it demands a degree of detachment which I can only achieve spasmodically and for very short periods"), then reaches some tentative conclusions. His most novel notion is that the British...
...turbans and fezzes of princes in the marble rotunda. On the great throne where viceroys once sat, perched birdlike Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, retiring Governor General of the Dominion. Beside him on a smaller throne was the President-elect, in black achkan (coat) and tight white churidar (trousers). Prasad's timid wife Rajbanshi sat near by, looking bewildered and frightened...