Word: timidity
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...romantic comedy lies at the heart of the production. As the play opens, timid Robin Oakapple (Michael Short) is attempting to woo the lovely Rose Maybud (Karen Thompson). Unable to overcome his shyness and reveal his true feelings, Robin instead convinces Richard Dauntless (Colum Amory), his foster brother, to talk to Rose for him. When the seafaring Richard sees the charming Rose, he breaks his promise to Robin and becomes engaged to Rose himself...
Lewis Percy yearns for the company of women. Too timid to expect them to love him, he aspires merely to their tolerance. Trusting and giving, guided by a "lasting conviction that women were a congenial and compassionate sex," he embarks on a quixotic quest for female companionship, only to experience shattering disappointment at the hands of those he seeks to love. Lewis' Bildungsroman is an ironic twist on the 19th century romantic novels he studies in his library carrel. This hero struggles for placid domesticity; it is the women who behave like cads...
Nevertheless, some California progun activists complain that the N.R.A. failed because it was too slow and timid. While it quickly takes charge of legislative fights in Washington, the organization rarely enters local or state battles until it is summoned by one of its affiliates, and even then not before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer...
...views are reflected in a variety of entertainment fare, from the relatively mild pro-environment messages of Jacques Cousteau's specials to more overtly polemical TV movies like Incident at Dark River. "We never said we were going to be totally balanced," notes Turner. Still, when compared with timid network programming and a PBS schedule that has been hamstrung by conservative corporate underwriters, Turner's up-front approach is refreshing...
This time, by golly, no one would call George Bush timid. Quite the contrary, the President made a rare appearance as Bush the riverboat gambler. By sending a high-level delegation to Beijing to confer with Chinese authorities who only six months earlier had ordered the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, Bush knew he would stir up a hurricane of outraged protest. And for what? The slender chance that China would respond with concessions that could begin to melt the ice in U.S. relations with the world's most populous nation...