Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to be off and running at 6 a.m.' Suddenly I realized how dreadful it had been. I mean, I hadn't relaxed in two years. The times I thought I was relaxing, I wasn't really relaxed. You know, you are always uptight because of the feeling that you can't make that inadvertent remark or do this or do that because it might be misinterpreted and could be a political liability...
...more blunt. "It is time to admit that incest need not be a perversion or a symptom of mental illness," he says. "Incest between . . . children and adults . . . can sometimes be beneficial." Indeed the new pro-incest literature is filled with the stupefying idea that opposition to incest reflects an uptight resistance to easy affection and warmth among family members. Writes Anthropologist Seymour Parker of the University of Utah cautiously: "It is questionable if the costs (of the incest taboo) in guilt and uneasy distancing between intimates are necessary or desirable. What are the benefits of linking a mist of discomfort...
...stage are huge physical manifestations of Francis's worst fears about himself, from his father's boorishness and classlessness to Bunny's flamboyant lust for his girlfriend's brother (on whom Francis also has a crush); from the obese, wheezing weirdness of Bunny's son, Herschel, to the uptight pettiness of the neighbor Lucille...
...distaste for the hard sell, did admit, though, "Some people are converted by methods I never would have thought of." Rose and several others emphasized that the portrait of the modern missionary should not include a pith helmet and elephant gun. "We don't want the image of the uptight guy padding down the river converting natives," Danby said. "Converting's a word I'd like to throw out," Rozzell added...