Word: timidating
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...refuses to develop themes, instead skates surfaces. The ending of his celebrated affair with Lady Ottoline Morrell, for example, glides without distinct definition into his tempestuous life with Lady Constance Malleson. Writes Russell: "I want personal love to be like a beacon fire lighting up the darkness, not a timid refuge from the cold as it is very often . . . Oh, I am happy, happy, happy." He passes with equal vagueness from his second marriage to Dora Black and the first joys of paternity at the age of 49 through the divorce and into his third marriage to Patricia Spence when...
Although the Quincy photographers allude lightly to the "Brandeis Exhibit," they would have done better to explain what they share with that exhibit--the theme, the American social landscape and the technique, 35mm camera usually with a 35mm lens. The point is to familiarize the timid viewer with what you are doing and to suggest what to look...
...their performances to careful tuning of the vocal apparatus. In another production Susan Larson as the Princess might have been called on to exercise the comic talents which she hinted at. Jacqueline Meily, the scheming Lady Blance, would have done better with firmer direction, for she apeared a trifle timid on stage. Barbara Menaker had more success as Lady Psyche, Miss Menaker being another one of those whose acting was twisted into an excessive show of will. Musically the show was a tour de force. The score is interesting enough to justify a detailed treatment impossible here...
...race: "Let us now join hearts and hands-black and white, brown and yellow, adult and child, in the single cause of America." He demanded a "moratorium on the vocabulary of violence." On Viet Nam: "The struggle for peace is not for the weak, the cowardly or the timid. It is for the brave and courageous." On the Administration's critics: "Deception, doubt and despair-that is the litany of the men who sell America short." And: "Iam a partisan American...
...thesis that Paris, and not New York, invented abstract expressionism in the 1950s (the French call their version tachisme, or staining). Hélas pour la grandeur, for just the reverse is shown. By comparison with the work turned out by the dynamic U.S. action painters, the French products look timid, prettified and unconvincing?with a few exceptions, most notably the stark abstractions of Pierre Soulages...