Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of Harvard's entries followed the spirit of the day and didn't take the race too seriously. Men's heavyweight crew Coach Harry Parker said, "We had a lot of fun and don't get too uptight about the results." The home team's only triumph of the day was in the Men's Championship Doubles, beating out 30 other shells...
Hughes and Jeffrey Korn, who plays Sky, turn in stellar performances. Hughes manages to embody both the uptight "mission doll" and the Havana seductress, and Korn does equally well as a sometime daydreamer who can still convince Sarah that there is nothing in her drink besides milk and a little native flavoring called "bacardi." Both actors amply demonstrate their marvelous voices. Hughes' "If I were a Bell," Korn's "Luck Be a Lady" and their several duets would resonate sweetly in Sanders Theater, let alone the cogy Leverett Old Library...
...easy going, forgiving, and relatively egalitarian people. Rather, they are aggressive, strict, somewhat pious, and, on occasion, belligerent and violent--not entirely unlike our own culture. More interesting are Freeman's chapters on sexual mores and behavior, and on adolescence. He concludes that the Samoans are in fact as uptight and troubled as adolescent Americans...
...Everyone's uptight about it but there haven't been any suicides," said Ned Sacktor '84, who faces the six-hour endurance test in Memorial Hall today...
...Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. Most of the TV show's major characters were sketched in by the movie, but the tone was '50s frat house, and the emphasis was on the safety-valve sexual high jinks that the heroes perpetrated on some of their uptight colleagues. These droll humiliations would have been too raunchy for TV and too alienating for audiences in search of a weekly identification figure. Enter Alan Alda, who was starring in films and TV movies without having hit it big and who was now ready for the right series. "In talking...