Word: timidation
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...Orchestra has attained a level of proficiency where such defects as timid openings and sloppy horn passages should be removed in rehearsal. Except for these lapses, the Orchestra played well, and its wind solos continued to be exceptionally lovely. The strings require more warmth and feeling in their glossy tone, but, as a section, they sound very well. The full orchestra, playing alone, was too constrained for such a highly dramatic work...
This sort of study is probably the most stimulating the College can offer, and it could be made available to many more students than now take it. Conservative departments and timid students are the greatest handicap to expansion of tutorial for credit, but if the faculty can put aside the absurd notion that most students work only for grades, this timorous attitude can be overcome. There is a grade in tutorial for credit, unlike course reduction, but this is not the stimulus; the spur to work in "99" courses comes from the requirement of laying one's work before...
...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...
...stupidities of the Irish church, the puritanism of its priests, the total intellectual poverty of his teachers, the misery of his own poor home, the bitter loneliness of that inexperienced, conquered, timid and emotionally besotted island on the rim of the world...
...criticize, once told a group of industrialists tartly: "I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men. If we are to recover prosperity, we shall have to find ways of emancipating energy and enterprise from the frustrating control of the constitutionally timid...