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...guest columnist for the Salient, argued that it is time for our society to move past arguing whether or not homosexuality and homosexuals are moral. In his column last week, Stephen E. Sachs '02 argued that liberals should participate in this debate, because refraining makes liberals appear too timid to engage in the intellectual combat of these debates and because given the lack of logically consistent arguments against homosexuality, liberals would win hands down...

Author: By Thomas M. Dougherty, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Fighting the Culture Wars | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...takes the form of the smooth-voiced and sardonic Cosmo Disney (Thomas H. Price ’02), who works as one half of a two-man freak show. Decked out in a black tuxedo, ordinary save for a flamboyant red coat, Disney proceeds to intimidate the portly, oft-timid Presley in a lengthy, riveting sequence of interplay. Price, for a good while, is sublime, manipulating Presley’s feeble mind with fine skill, shifting between master and mollifier as he holds forth on his personal philosophies. Johnson, his shoulders submissively hunched forward and his voice high and breathy...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: (Cosmo) Disney's World | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...life when they need all the help they can get. Brieanna Everts, 14, acknowledges that she was really shy until she began dancing the East Coast swing and the lindy hop at the Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association. She now finds it much easier to handle social situations. Also once timid, Andrea Mosley, 16, of Alta Loma, Calif., learned to dance at a swing camp she attended with her family. Clearly more poised, she happily admits that "dance helped me get out of my shell." Because one of the etiquette rules of ballroom is that a girl who refuses a dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: They're Having A Ball | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...through the second period, a referee spotted a nearby mass of Harvard and Northeastern players exchanging words and shoves. It appeared that the referee would take action as he aggressively skated towards the skirmish, but as the thin man neared the ferocious women, he awkwardly shied away like a timid child...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Fear the De Remer: Pathos in between the Pipes | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

SCHULZ DID. A SHY, TIMID BOY, a barber's son, born on November 26, 1922, "Sparky" Schulz - nicknamed for the horse in "Barney Google"- had grown up from modest beginnings in St Paul, Minnesota, to realize his earliest dream of creating a newspaper comic strip. The only child of devoted parents, neither of whom had gone further in school than the third grade, Schulz linked the happy unsophistication of his childhood home with the ideal of a dignified, ordinary life that he forever after tried to return to. "There are times," he wrote at 58, "when I would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passages: The Life and Times of Charles Schulz | 12/28/2000 | See Source »

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