Word: timidity
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Wicker criticized the press for being timid and hesitant to publish information at risk, despite its skepticism of government sources. He added that the press is protected by the First Amendment and was intended by the writers of the Constitution to be a check on the government...
...tone down your recommendation because you think it might not be feasible. If we have an argument with the legislature, we'll go directly to the people and let them make the decision." And we had extraordinary success in Georgia. If you tone down or are reticent or timid about what is proposed just because of political expediency, you rob the whole process of much of its strength. The simplicity of it, the completeness of it, the obvious advantage to the nation of the changes -these are your major selling points. And if you throw those away on political...
Dressed for the part, Ivor Richard, 44, Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations and currently chairman of the Rhodesian conference in Geneva, would make a splendidly old-fashioned John Bull. Burly, ebullient and pipe smoking, the bespectacled barrister is anything but timid-the description Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo applied to the British role in the negotiations. That much, at least, was made clear two days before the conference opened when Richard waded into what he called a "good verbal punch-up" with a member of an African nationalist delegation...
Opposition leftists are divided about the Premier's reforms. Some say that the measures Suárez has taken so far are too timid and want an immediate election of a constituent assembly. Others concede that the reform bill is a step toward the kind of free society demanded by the Democratic Coordination, an umbrella group that includes Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats. But the organized left has boxed itself in with a public vow not to cooperate with any Spanish regime until the Communist Party is made legal -something that the rightists will probably be able...
...with each other. Epstein's Parson Morell partakes of the tragic stature of Pastor Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts, a part Epstein played last year. It is a moving, sympathetic portrayal, but its naturalism stands in uneasy contrast to Emerson's frenetic, histrionic, almost self-parodying Marchbanks. As the timid poet, Emerson shrinks, flinches and mugs his way to a good quantity of laughs. But the scene between the two antagonists, especially their initial confrontation, are jarring--not because of the clash of personalities, but because of the disparity in acting styles...