Word: timidation
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...popular allegiance, Khrushchev, as the head of a gang that rose to authority under Stalin, delivered his famous weeping recital of Stalinist terror. But the discussion of Communist evil was not so easily confined to Stalin alone, for how different was the new crowd? In the satellites, the first timid flutterings of public criticism were masked as indictments of Stalin. But in Poland, in particular, the criticism took on a decided anti-Russian tone-it was, after all, Soviet insistence on farm collectivization, on heavy industry, on unfavorable trade terms, on oppression of religion, that caused Poland's basic...
...reduced to modeling and drugs. He, a once tough, talented proletarian who might have been a Labor cabinet minister, is reduced to penny-alining and drink. In Table Number Seven Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress Leighton is an angular, sniffiy spinster who loves the fraud whom her dragon of a mother exposes and tries to expel...
...corpse are sent to the laboratory, where, under the microscope, "an unfamiliar aspect of Palabaud would be revealed: patterns of polygonal cells, sections of vessels appearing as small circles, granular clusters, trusses of tangled fibrils. And that would be the last aspect left to mankind of the timid vagabond of islands and oceans.'' Mortal beauty and even mortal existence, Author Reverzy suggests, are never more than a bright buckler for mortal decay. But a courageous death, a first act of spirit, can give meaning to the most trifling life...
...this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually frustrated, but his first example is that of a hard-drinking, warmly honest journalist would-be politician, while in the second play he becomes a man who doesn't drink, is timid with women, and is only sexually perverted and dishonest with himself...
Next, there was Sir Winston's daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular...