Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to sit around waiting for results. He "wants the quick cure of the scalpel, not the slow cure of a pill." Even the scalpel can be too slow. "For God's sake, will you cut?" asked the surgeon who supervised No-len's first timid incision. "At the rate you're going, we won't be into the abdomen for another four hours...
Heaving out the old curriculum, Allen & Co. reorganized departments into multidisciplinary "centers" that must rethink their goals every three years or automatically go out of business. Though timid undergraduates may still take old-fashioned teaching-methods courses, the adventuresome are free to gather credits where they may. In the "humanistic education" center, for example, students and professors join modified encounter groups to pinpoint the elusive emotional problems that may baffle them and the children they will teach. A doctoral student recently got credit for one self-designed unit of "watching Dwight Allen." Students also practice-teach while living full time...
...REMEMBER the first time I read "The Fish." I was in ninth grade at a new school, very timid and very scared, and I knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently because it was written about my brother's birthday. I didn't enjoy reading poems; they were difficult, and I didn't think they were interesting enough to make the difficulty worthwhile. But I had a young and very good English teacher that year, and he put "The Fish" in front...
Second, it puts even the most timid of souls into an anarchic critical position of imagined danger. Sarris continually rants and raves against the "literary critical Establishment." He also bears a curious, love-hate relationship with the motion picture viewing audience, scolding an "out" director like Huston for attempting to insure their recognition of the tensions in Reflections in a Golden Eye, but scolding them when they fail to show up for the latest Bresson. The enemy is everywhere; thus does armchair iconoclasm reach new heights of tired antagonism...
...stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed kitsch...