Word: timidation
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Furthermore, readers can come away with the encouraging feeling that these new bleak writers possess such audacity and conviction that we may have to find them a more encompassing--and cheerful--name. With Juck, we can put the timid shibboleth "Post Modernism" behind us at the same time: when authors like Carol Bly look to the future they invoke a visionary power that threatens to dilate into a new brand of fiction, one in which the characters as well as the audience are party to the author's hopes, secrets, and best-guesses. Though cantankerous, disheveled Svea dies early...
Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
Just for fun, Nixon gouges old enemies like liberals, journalists, academicians and anybody he believes to be timid and self-righteous. He tears down what he sees to be myths ("The nuclear freeze is a fraud"). "Confusing real peace with perfect peace is a dangerous but common fallacy," Nixon writes. "Perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. . . perfect peace has no historical antecedents and therefore no practical meaning in a world in which conflict among men is persistent and pervasive. If real peace is to exist, it must exist along with...
There have always been adventurers, footloose and sometimes screwloose, and their careless "Why not?" has always stirred alarming and delicious fears in settled souls whose timid question is "Why?" But Dr. Livingstone has been found (alive on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, in 1871, by Anglo-American Journalist Henry Morton Stanley), the Atlantic has been flown in a single-engine aircraft (by Lindbergh, in 1927), the polar regions have been explored (by an assortment of frauds and heroes), the world has been circumnavigated singlehanded (first by Joshua Slocum from 1895 to 1898), and all of the 14 mountains higher than...
...around the planet, including contingents from every branch of the service deployed on three continents, well within shooting distance of hot combat zones-Lebanon, Chad, Central America. This show of force represents nothing so grand or explicit as a "Reagan Doctrine." But President Reagan is clearly not a bit timid about using U.S. military might abroad to serve what he sees as important national ends. "This President," says White House Chief of Staff James Baker, "has shown that the U.S. can project American power abroad in a prudent and responsible...