Word: extrovert
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...half hour or an hour. Some boys are very shy, and I haven't known a great majority of the guys before the interview." Birge wonders, "When you get a guy who doesn't look like much--what to do? Especially if the guy is not an extrovert, and he sits there with his mouth dry and his feet shuffling. He knows his life depends on what you say. I feel for the boys; they're scared. They want to go to Harvard. They're thinking. 'If Birge thinks I'm a jerk, I won't go there...
...Worker-- is not a significant intellectual force. Its compromises with the same American Way that Carey McWilliams speaks of have cut the American Church loose from the main European intellectual currents of Catholic thought. Content with being "one of the three major American creeds," Catholicism here is an activist, extrovert religion, still very mindful of its immigrant and lower class background, and still embarrassed at having to find places for intellectuals...