Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violinist Jascha Heifetz suggested that U. S. concert audiences should hiss whenever they feel like it: "American audiences are too standardized . . . too timid to express their real opinion of an artist...
Your article on hearing (TIME, Nov. 6) was very interesting and the accompanying diagram was excellent. However, I would like to know the source of your information when you say, "the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull." If you mean that 20,000,000 people, about one in every six, in this country have sufficient hearing loss to constitute a problem in their daily affairs, the statement is absurd on the face of it. Look about you at your acquaintances. How many are bothered by a hearing loss...
...surveying the corporate structure of modern business, he worriedly notes "points of control which Labor cannot reach by collective bargaining alone," goes on to preach Government regulation (and even ownership of railroads), when & where private enterprise "cannot alone adjust itself to new conditions." Near the end of his timid tome, he tentatively concludes...
Purpose of the society is to .encourage or sweeten the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull. For 50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes, the society can do nothing but cheer for bigger & better special training schools. Through newspaper campaigns and radio programs, the society, which claims such hard-of-hearing, hard-working members as Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Owen D. Young, has 1) pushed the passage of laws in eleven States demanding hearing tests for all school children;* 2) campaigned for routine lipreading classes in all public schools...
...failing to get it out again. The story concerns one Phil Dolan 3rd (Eddie Albert), called Junior, who drops out as the juvenile in a hoofing act to write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which he later does some...