Word: timidly
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...with the production of Bertolt Brecht's early play In the Jungle of the Cities, the Agassiz players have grown strangely timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...
...actors present the material briskly and without complication. In the first part of the evening excerpts from various plays and poems are recited by members of the company. The bulk of the evening is devoted to a shortened version of Man is Man, the story of how a timid Indian is transformed into the terror of the British Colonial Army...
...motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...
When Graham asked those who wished to make a "decision for Christ" to raise their hands, 500 timid hands rose. Billy, who hopes eventually to mount crusades in Poland and Czechoslovakia, was unperturbed. Said he: "Wherever the Gospel is preached, whether to one person, one thousand, or one million, there is success...
Economics Minister Schiller has made frantic efforts to revive plant expansion, but industry, with a quarter of its capacity idle, is fearful. The Bundesbank only reluctantly, and by timid ½% stages, cut its discount rate from 5% to 3%, the lowest in Europe except for Switzerland and Portugal. In the first five months of this year, industrial production slipped 5.3%, consumer goods output 9%, construction 13%. The number of unemployed in February rose fivefold from its 1966 low, to 674,000, or 3.1% of the work force, very high by German standards...