Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...determined that her son Jeremy would fare better. So the year before he was to start kindergarten, she overcame her lifelong shyness and began to canvass her California neighborhood, introducing herself to kids and their parents and setting up play dates with Jeremy's future classmates. In late summer, knowing that teachers often fix up their classrooms in the weeks before school starts, she dropped by the school so she and her son could meet his teacher, who invited them to look around the room. "I think we succeeded," Johnson says. "Jeremy is a happy, social child...
...Paxil and its manufacturer, SmithKline Beecham, are upping the ante. If the FDA agrees, and it probably will, SmithKline will soon be pushing Paxil as the first-ever formally sanctioned treatment for, of all things, shyness. This isn't as bizarre as it sounds. FDA approval would actually be for the treatment of "acute social phobia," a pathological form of shyness that's more akin to panic. For doctors, at least, it's no surprise that phobia and depression might be treated with the same drugs. "The big secret," says Dr. Brian Doyle, director of the anxiety disorders program...
...Gretzky, back in 1979, America only knew hockey as boxing on ice, a sport that could never take hold south of Route 80. He helped free the game from the goons and clear a path for the more skilled, European game that dominates the NHL today. He overcame his shyness to become the perfect ambassador: humble, accessible, nice and somehow impeccably earnest without being creepy. The biggest off-ice controversy he ever faced was whether being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado sent a bad message to children...
...hated to be alone but had no talent for making friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...
...happens in a high school classroom when Thomas Robertson, a fortyish substitute math teacher, takes notice of Amy, who has inherited her mother's shyness but none of her plainness. When Robertson urges Amy to "come on out...everybody's been asking about you," she complies in ways that she, and certainly Isabelle, never imagined...