Word: shyness
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...people know that Penn was the same old Penn, there was his trademark publicity shyness. (He faces assault charges stemming from an alleged Nashville attack on two journalists.) Two nights before the wedding, he was photographed making his way into his bachelor party with a towel or blanket wrapped around his face. And few wondered who had scrawled an obscene greeting in the sand off Unger's house for photographers to read from the helicopters above...
...actors in this week’s production of “This Is Our Youth” shuddered as they watched themselves in a video-taped dress rehearsal. Their shyness was underserved: even in a casual run-through, they succeeded admirably...
...less communicative than I am. Am I less comfortable on set working with actors than I am in the editing room trying to put it all together? Yes, I would say that's probably true. Am I by nature a shy person? Yes. Have I kind of overcome my shyness to do things that a shy person shouldn't be able to do? Yes, of course I have. But people think of me as a sort of pathological, Howard Hughes-type guy sitting in a hotel room, which is definitely not so. I mean, you've known me for years...
...trouble. Last year Boston's enrollment had plummeted to 56,000, from 93,000 in 1973. Whites account for just 27% of the remaining students. Illiteracy in high schools stands at 20%, the dropout rate at about 48%. But Garrity, displaying an odd mixture of public belligerence and personal shyness, refused invitations from Superintendent Spillane to visit the schools. "The pathetic part," says Spillane, "is that it seems that he's almost in fear of discovering what is really going...
...lives lived exuberantly can yield grand things, lives lived more quietly may produce something even finer. As Battaglia puts it: "Shyness is simply a human difference, a variation that can be a form of richness." Scientists studying shyness never tire of pointing out that Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were unusually reserved people and may have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra...