Word: timidity
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...that happens, the U.S. will be turning its back on contemporary history. John F. Kennedy learned at the Bay of Pigs that timid application of power can be worse than no exercise of power at all. Putting his experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the Cuban missile crisis. He made it bluntly clear to Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. was prepared to invade and overrun Cuba if the Russians did not remove their missiles. The result was a textbook settlement for a nuclear confrontation: both sides could claim a victory of a sort...
When the Truth-in-Lending bill goes to conference committee with the Senate, the previously timid upper chamber will find that the House has grown markedly militant, fed by favorable publicity and heavy public approval. Five consumer measures have already been passed by the 90th Congress, and more are on the way-prompting Lyndon Johnson, in his State of the Union message last month, to describe it as "the Consumer Congress." For the time being at least, the American consumer reigns as king of Capitol Hill...
...from being a sellout to storybook ballet, Agathe is a wholly original synthesis of a variety of dance arts. Eileen Cropley's every motion depicts the transformation of the girl from maidenly naivete to knowing womanhood; her timid, mincing steps broaden gradually to final exultant leaps. As Satan, Taylor circles the stage like a great, muscular swooping bird of prey, while Dan Wagoner flutters nervously as a sardonic, sanctimonious Angel and Daniel Williams creates a Pan who seems the exact personification of drool...
...from being a sellout to storybook ballet, Agathe is a wholly original synthesis of a variety of dance arts. Eileen Cropley's every motion depicts the transformation of the girl from maidenly naivete to knowing womanhood; her timid, mincing steps broaden gradually to final exultant leaps. As Satan, Taylor circles the stage like a great, muscular swooping bird of prey, while Dan Wagoner flutters nervously as a sardonic, sanctimonious Angel and Daniel Williams creates a Pan who seems the exact personification of drool...
...antidote to Broadway's bruising hit-or-flop economy is the regional theaters' desire to nurture new plays and playwrights. Up to now they have been pretty timid about it. The tendency is to cater to the subscribers' varied tastes by dividing a season between classics, proven Broadway hits of recent vintage, and such fashionable avantgardists as lonesco, Beckett, Pinter and the ubiquitous Brecht. More ambitious than most, Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum is genuinely trying to offer original plays. One such experiment, Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now?, opened last week...