Word: timide
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Last semester, Peninsula provoked widespread campus debate on feminism, with little response from the newly timid Left. Wexler herself confesses an unwillingness to write a simple letter. Do we really expect her to organize a rally? G. Brent McGuire '95 Senior Council Member Peninsula
...infants who react strongly are more likely to be shy or timid when they grow older," Arcus said...
...head of the Harvard infant study laboratory, Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan, said in the Chronicle that 15 to 20 percent of children have a predisposition towards shyness, but that only 9 to 12 percent actually become timid...
Another finding, she said, is that shyness is more common in females than in males. Arcus said that this gender discrepancy may be caused by the fact that girls "appear to be socialized to be more timid, quiet, and introverted...
However "inside" this sounds, the film's people are complex, attractive and familiar; they could be working at the next desk or sleeping on the next pillow. They can be loved and can betray almost simultaneously. Matt can be both timid ("I'm actually afraid of my own kid") and, when defending his craft against a studio creep, vindictive ("You know nothing but how to pose for this little picture of you that nobody is snapping"). The insecure mogul somehow appeals to the sensitive researcher ("I think it's so wonderful that you don't worry about even trying...