Word: timidly
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...drew criticism from all sides. Last week, after a year of tinkering with the original document in an effort to placate critics, HEW laid down a new set of rules. But its summer rerun is in the same old trouble. Some feminists say that HEW has been too timid. Some colleges and the National Collegiate Athletic Association say the department has come on too strong. The N.C.A.A. thinks the provision for equal opportunity for women in college sports "may well signal the end of intercollegiate athletic programs as we have known them...
...Timid Soul. Her one imperious achievement of the evening is to act as if she were the only person onstage. Since she delivers her part of the dialogue like nightclub one-liners, she might as well be alone. As Hedda's sinister admirer Judge Brack, Timothy West is as sensually menacing as a puff of cigar smoke. If Patrick Stewart's Luvborg has "vine leaves in his hair," they are not Greek but plastic. As Hedda's husband, a timid soul and a baffled marital masochist who dotes on books, Peter Eyre salvages the only acting honors...
...Couple on Broadway only to be elbowed out of the movie by more bankable Jack Lemmon. If anyone doubted the injustice, two nights after the Oscars, ABC aired a Jules Feiffer sketch of Carney giving a performance of Thurberesque comedy as a harried househusband, a timid man all but overcome by familial concupiscence...
...responses must be added a bit of professional cynicism: that leukemia, like tuberculosis and unlike, say, cancer of the bowel, is a good literary disease. It offers a succession of intensifying crises, separated by weeks or months of remission during which the sufferer appears to be totally healthy and timid hopes of a permanent cure are raised. Surefire theater, in short. Such thoughts cannot be entirely dismissed, though Eric Lund's story must be considered on its own merits. When Lund's leukemia was diagnosed, he was a fairly ordinary 17-year-old Connecticut...
...hues of khaki and denim, waltz in the aisles passing fruit and sunflower seeds. Joni's arrival turns the camp town meeting into a sing-along chautauqua. After the concert, the fans mass around the main stage exit to wait for Joni, and when she appears they voice timid hellos, give her bouquets or simply smile...