Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Delteil is only 35, but he is already high in reputation in his native France. An early book of verse won a prize from the French Academy; his Jeanne D'Arc won the Femina Vie Heureuse prize. A great Rabelaisian scholar, he is a hard worker, socially timid. Says he: "I am a citizen of the world, and a man of flesh and blood. To write is to make love. I place the senses higher than the brain. I should like all my books to provide the same pleasure as a woman gives. I have five senses...
...Aviator (Warner). Credit for this belongs properly neither to its actors nor director but to Warner Brothers' technicians and cameramen who arranged the funny and highly exciting stunt flying that is the climax of the action. It is all about a timid novelist who, as the author of a work on aviation, has to go up in a plane for the first time in his life. In The Hottentot, Edward Everett Horton, able farceur of this piece, was a fake jockey whom the horses frightened more than anything else in the world. The Aviator is a rewrite...
Christopher Mahon is a daft and timid fellow who strikes his father in an altercation and fancies that he has killed him. Fleeing across the wild coast of County Mayo he tells the tale of his patricide in a public house and is immediately heralded for bravery, ogled by the village girls. With this impetus he becomes indeed a dashing fellow. Then his avenging father appears and the psychological fun begins. This famed, lyrical comedy by J. M. Synge is now revived by the Irish Theatre. The actors find it as difficult to speak distinctly as they...
Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...