Word: timidation
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Within such limits, church leaders, e.g., Cardinals Stritch of Chicago and Mclntyre of Los Angeles, have called for more controversy in the Catholic press on public issues of the day. Said Editor Bosler to his colleagues last week: "Even the most timid of Catholic editors these days is emboldened to poke his head out of his shell and to take a look around. And high time it is, too." Added the Rev. Thurston Davis, Editor of America: "Catholics, of course, think and judge alike on matters of faith and morality. But on all other matters, usually of a social, economic...
Cried a Peking commentator: "Trees are budding and flowers are in bloom; let everyone of us dress up gaily, and compete with the beautiful spring." Nonetheless, practically all the men continued to wear liberation uniforms, and many women cautiously covered their new dresses with old clothes. The timid scanned the May Day reviewing stand for signs that would give them courage, but Chairman Mao and his gang appeared in their old dark suits, more like a phalanx of rigid revolutionaries than flowers in bloom...
...concentration on exporting its dollars, tools and advice to the postwar world, the U.S. has been slow and a little timid about exporting its culture. But now culture is catching up with the atomic cannon, the dam builders, the agricultural advisors and the diplomats...
When he first began his experiments with children, Trillat found that many of their inner problems showed up clearly in their writing. The introverts had difficulty connecting their letters; the timid tended to squeeze all theirs together. Gradually, Trillat concocted a set of corrective exercises designed to give children a sense of "continuity, creation and equilibrium." In overcoming a defect in any one of these elements, said he, a child must first develop a feeling for rhythm, melody and harmony...
...first signs of a thaw in Russia's artistic climate even brought one timid debut out into the open. An unpublicized show by younger artists in a small Moscow gallery included canvases copying the strong, clear colors of Matisse and even imitations of Braque's cubist period. Clear inspiration for the new art effort was an exhibition-one of the most exciting seen in Moscow in decades-of French painting up to 1917, the year before the Soviets confiscated major private collections. Art students queued for hours in the subfreezing weather before Moscow's Pushkin Museum, came...