Word: timide
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...remaining plays are merely curtain lowerers. Veronique fails to revolve around a problem only writers can care about: Should a playwright write profitable comedies or unprofitable deep stuff? The Way It Was is a timid venture back to Butter field 8 country, intended to be a musical. O'Hara's long account in the preface of why Irving Berlin turned it down is almost as embarrassing as the moraine of first drafts, letters to the editor and encysted insults that Norman Mailer shored against his ruins in Advertisements For Myself...
...Institute; the average undergraduate is not yet ready to worry about post-doctoral education. Nevertheless, "the sense that things can change," as Mrs. Bunting says, has replaced the resignation which pervaded Radcliffe attitudes two years ago. With the President to push reluctant College officials and alienated, bored, or timid 'Cliffies into an excited recognition of the potentials of a Radcliffe education, the dangers of stagnation lie in the past...
...deeds must match our words. We must never talk bigger than we are prepared to act. When our words are strong and our actions are timid, we end up appearing aggressive and weak at the same time. We cannot wish away the problem by brushing off nations like Cuba and Laos as 'unimportant peripheral areas.' If the smaller nations get the idea that we don't consider them important enough to fight for and that the Communists do, they will go down the Communist line like a row of dominoes...
From our unreserved support we hope there will be drawn a very sharp and salutary lesson for the so-called sportswriters of today, whose craven columns pale at the first signals of depair. When the lilacs send their lovely odors into the spring air, let these timid miscreants, like us, give their succour here at home, where it is most needed. Indeed, it is truly said, local loyalties are the finest flowers of civilization...
...says, "The Committee has latterly improved its hearing manners. . . . Yet it continues to be carelees or unscrupulous in vilifying its critics." It continues, "Under these circumstances, we find it understandable, though deplorable, that many teachers, in the colleges and universities, as well as in the public schools, have grown timid about stating, even for classroom discussion, ideas which someone later might interpret as subversive...