Word: timidity
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...stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed kitsch...
...call it the "welfare syndrome." Largely because of the work of groups like the National Welfare Rights Organization, which now has chapters in all 50 states, the poor no longer feel that any stigma is attached to applying for welfare. Tens of thousands of persons who were once too timid or too ashamed to go on the dole are now rapping on the doors of their local welfare offices and demanding the payments they consider to be their right. Coupled with liberalized requirements and high unemployment, this has resulted, according to Department of Health, Education and Welfare figures...
Peyret predicts other benefits: "I don't claim that bordellos will eliminate sexual crimes, but I believe they will reduce them. Also, state establishments will permit timid young men to overcome sexual complexes." Another factor: there are 3,000,000 foreign laborers in France who suffer from French xenophobia; many Frenchwomen are reluctant to go to bed with them...
...REAL WORLD has rarely been a thing that sensitive and timid natures would regard without a shudder. But Charles Reich, 42-year-old Yale professor, has a vision, and the vision has given him courage. He calls it the "Greening of America," and means the emergence-" like flowers pushing up through a concrete pavement" -of a new consciousness, a new perception of and attitude toward the modern technological world, which will spread and flourish through the soul of our society...
Angela appeared subdued, almost timid at her arraignment in federal court on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder and kidnaping in California. She was later turned over to New York authorities to await a hearing next month on extradition to California. Says William Kunstler, a defense attorney in the Chicago conspiracy trial: "She now seems to be torn between the old-line theory and her friendship with black people. Remember, her education is all white-oriented-Brandeis, the Sorbonne, Marcuse." Yet, he adds, "the differences between the party and the movement are irreconcilable. The Communist Party...