Word: timidation
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...Evan G. Galbraith has achieved something of a reputation for making undiplomatic remarks about his hosts. Last week the former banker and Reaganite turned his scorn on the State Department. After announcing that he would resign in July, Galbraith told the New York Times that career diplomats are overly timid "liberals." Said he: "There's something about the foreign service that takes the guts out of people. The tendency is to avoid confronting an issue." Galbraith's broadside incensed Secretary of State George Shultz, who declared, "Somebody ought to tie his tongue for him." The American Foreign Service Association charged...
...Jacksons are unsettled by the neighbors' treason, but for the lonely, timid wife Barbara (Rosemary Harris) the personal betrayal cuts far more deeply. She has almost no friends other than Helen Kroger (Dana Ivey), and cannot bear the thought that Helen has lied to her and feigned devotion. In torment, Barbara rages at the snoopers: Spying on spies, she rants, is the moral equivalent of spying. She aches with desire to tell Helen to flee. Her pain is more than loyalty: it is a burning need to legitimize her own feelings...
...real person.' " In fact, he says, with some asperity, "my ambition was to play real people in Star Wars and Raiders. Doing this movie didn't feel any different to me from doing any other movie. The process is the same. It was regular acting." Unlike some more timid actors, Ford is willing to take chances and experiment with a character. "He is constantly looking for the authentic moment," says Irvin Kershner, director of The Empire Strikes Back. "You can try anything...
...right room?" Beck asked his silent 200 students when no one would define feudalism. Quickly he followed with another query, "What is unemployment?" One timid student replied, "Not having a job," and was backed up by others in the room. "Oh great, we've got a group of backup singers over here," Beck quipped...
...Barry wants to go out in a blaze of glory," says former Arizona Republican Chairman Harry Rosenzweig. G.O.P. Congressman John McCain of Arizona, who may run for Goldwater's empty seat in 1986, thinks his timid colleagues are secretly pleased by the plain-spoken provocations. Says McCain: "When you hear Barry Goldwater make a statement, and God knows he's quotable, the sentiment on the Hill is, 'Thank God Barry said what I didn't dare...