Word: timidity
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...first, she says, "I was timid and scared to death." But since her election as a delegate at the state convention, she has become more relaxed and gregarious. "You find out that they're just people," she says. "It's amazing as you study politicians. They get so wrapped up in staying in office that they lose contact with the people." A Shirley Chisholm supporter, Betty Patrick is now taking lessons in parliamentary procedure and throwing potluck dinners to raise the $500 she needs to go to Miami Beach...
After his discharge, Trintignant spent a decade in a rut, playing mooning lovers and timid husbands in a succession of forgettable pictures (Mata Hari, The Game of Truth). These were interspersed with equally unmemorable Paris stage performances, including an attempt at Hamlet that was tragic in more ways than...
...guidelines themselves are complex, but overall they seem too timid in requiring university action, and too prone to escape clauses when they do. They forbid both buying stock in a company just to make trouble, and secondary action against already-owned companies financially involved with socially injurious firms (part of a generally benign view of U.S. corporations and the interplay between them). They forbid universities generally to initiate proxy actions, even when they would be permitted to support those initiated by others. They forbid cooperative action by universities owning stock in the same company. Meanwhile, they allow a university...
...celebration of life--as it is. There's an amazing coherence in the show. The characterization is pretty much evident in the script. There's a division between the introspective and the outgoing. It's always song-countersong: Curt sings about marriage, I sing of brothels; Paula sings 'Timid Frieda' while Patty sings 'My Death.' It's really twenty-six scenes, not just songs. It works as theater because it limits drama to a minimum, cutting out the extraneous. It gets down to a core...
CURT RALSTON was both clever and affecting as "The Statue" of a war hero that cynically comments on the inscription at its feet and the cant of passersby. But sometimes Ralston lets his marionette affectations dominate numbers that would be better played naturally. Paula Rose is the "Timid Frieda" and keeps her reserve amidst the general flamboyance: she is a useful touchstone for calm and excels in romantic numbers such as "I Loved...