Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling the '70s "a decade of second thoughts." Horner quoted Daniel Yankelovich in describing America's shift from "an uptight culture in a dynamic economy to a dynamic culture in an uptight economy." She cited as the decade's three major areas of conflict "changes in the portrait of America"--especially the growing numbers and status of minorities: women's roles and their movement to the workplace: and changes in the economy, between the U.S. and the world and between the public and private sectors...
Florida women's captain Betsy Rapp agrees with Caulkins' assessment but is quick to point out that she has seen a large change in Randy's attitude since he first arrived at Florida three years ago. "He was always uptight, and he hated being here that first year," she says. "Now he likes college coaching a lot more, and he is happier around the swimmers...
...suit the role of Tough Young American Novelist. He avoids the stylized macho disillusionment that characterizes much Hemingway imitation--and for that matter, much of Hemingway. His voice, with its tightlipped, overwrought intensity, is a voice terse enough for the end of the world. He and his characters, uptight and dream-ridden, have stared into the intolerable darkness and can hardly bear to speak anymore...
...Black female celebrity is pretty, or sexy, or married to a White man, she is called a talentless whore. If she's elegant or highbrow or intellectual, she's pronounced funny-looking, uptight, or in need of a good brutal fuck. If she happens to appeal to a White audience, she is despised. If she's independent, physical, or aggressive, she's called a dyke...
...bring an end to black crime." Otherwise, it is a fairly dull treatise on liberal social schemes, affirmative action, "blood money" sent to Israel, and welfare. More interesting is the other front-page story, which calls on youngsters ten to 17 years old to join the Klan Youth Corps. "Uptight about schools... or just about Negroes!!!" Have you 'had it' with blacks following you home to beat you up?... Are you 'fed up' with special privileges given to blacks by the School Administration simply because they are black? Are you really 'uptight' because White girls have to submit to being...