Word: timidity
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...rally, the tutor said, "Boys and girls, if the Advocate were smart, you'd print that mag on soft paper, and we'd make it functional as toilet paper." Everyone laughed, and someone suggested that it would be worthwhile to get the tutor to use toilet paper, and a timid voice in the corner said, "But Fred, isn't the Gazette enough?" and there was more laughter. But then, because everyone at the table was embarrassed at being linked with the Advocate, the subject was changed...
...want to sit around waiting for results. He "wants the quick cure of the scalpel, not the slow cure of a pill." Even the scalpel can be too slow. "For God's sake, will you cut?" asked the surgeon who supervised No-len's first timid incision. "At the rate you're going, we won't be into the abdomen for another four hours...
Heaving out the old curriculum, Allen & Co. reorganized departments into multidisciplinary "centers" that must rethink their goals every three years or automatically go out of business. Though timid undergraduates may still take old-fashioned teaching-methods courses, the adventuresome are free to gather credits where they may. In the "humanistic education" center, for example, students and professors join modified encounter groups to pinpoint the elusive emotional problems that may baffle them and the children they will teach. A doctoral student recently got credit for one self-designed unit of "watching Dwight Allen." Students also practice-teach while living full time...
...REMEMBER the first time I read "The Fish." I was in ninth grade at a new school, very timid and very scared, and I knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently because it was written about my brother's birthday. I didn't enjoy reading poems; they were difficult, and I didn't think they were interesting enough to make the difficulty worthwhile. But I had a young and very good English teacher that year, and he put "The Fish" in front...
Second, it puts even the most timid of souls into an anarchic critical position of imagined danger. Sarris continually rants and raves against the "literary critical Establishment." He also bears a curious, love-hate relationship with the motion picture viewing audience, scolding an "out" director like Huston for attempting to insure their recognition of the tensions in Reflections in a Golden Eye, but scolding them when they fail to show up for the latest Bresson. The enemy is everywhere; thus does armchair iconoclasm reach new heights of tired antagonism...