Word: timidation
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...does not arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International...
...savage, premonitory caricatures of Vice President Nixon in search of prominence. Mort Sahl earned $100,000 a year kidding the splayfoot, clayfoot maneuvers of the middle class, in and out of ofiice. Jules Feiffer, Walt Kelly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Mad magazine all flourished in the allegedly timid decade. Jack Kerouac's road, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Gregory Corso's curses -these too issued in the '50s, when the beats marched to an indifferent drummer...
...underwear business, whose restless daughter is engaged to a puny, spoiled aristocrat, are enlivened in Shavian fashion by the unexpected injection of foreign elements. A handsome young man and a Polish lady acrobat drop in quite literally by crashing their aeroplane into the family greenhouse. And a timid would-be gunman secrets himself in the portable Turkish bath in order to avenge his mother's honor by attacking Mr. Tarleton. The volatile Pole, Lina Szczepanowska, puts her finger on how little takes place in this English family when she accuses the Tarletons and their guests: "You seem to think...
Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--at the New Theater just down the street--is another fine play with some similar strengths, about a Christ-figure getting himself crucified by the authoritarian Big Nurse and timid inmates of an insane asylum. I'd go with That Championship Season--it's more naturalistic and strikes even closer to home, I'd say--but maybe that's just my mood...
Some 20 states have already instituted some form of no-fault plan. But most have been timid versions that leave plenty of access to the courtroom. That is an ineffective solution; insurers generally agree that the right to file suit must be sharply limited if a no-fault plan is to work. Further, though insurers have tried hard to work out a system for peaceful coexistence of fault and no-fault systems in nearby states, some legal complexities remain. For example, if drivers from the fault states of Texas and Mississippi run into each other in New York, they...