Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...artisanal-beer makers tend to be hippies, you're going to hear a lot of Grateful Dead. But there are some major upsides: you can visit breweries, unlike wineries, right in major cities; you're finished admiring the operations in 10 minutes; and instead of sipping and spitting in uptight tasting rooms, you down samples in attached bars, many of which have food--much of it fried...
...doing some research and hiring an administrator. When Harvard instituted the position of fun czar—officially called the Campus Life Fellow—as a coordinator for large-scale campus social events, the media and blog response was a flurry of derision. Were Harvard students so uptight that they needed to have fun despotically imposed upon them? Despite the apparent absurdity of having a fun czar, we approve of and acknowledge the necessity of such a position—not to impose fun upon us, but to create unique avenues for social life on campus. The College, however...
...Sure Thing.” 4. Whenever John Cusack says a pickup line that makes you cringe. For example: “How would you like to have a sexual experience so intense it could conceivably change your political views?” 5. For every remark about ugly, uptight New England college students. This shot can be in defiance or in agreement. 6. Whenever John Cusack is drinking a beer. Two if he’s having it for breakfast. 7. For every man in embarrassingly short shorts. 8. Every time a character repeats a line from earlier...
Docking at Southampton in 1946, Ballard found England just as classbound and uptight, and also bombed out and exhausted. He studied medicine at Cambridge, but was impatient for the future already signposted by Freud, the Surrealists and American science fiction. With his wife, Mary - and, in quick succession, three children - Ballard immersed himself in the hands-on family life he craved. After the publication of The Drowned World in 1962, he could afford to stay home, writing more postapocalyptic tales. Then, the following year, Mary died of pneumonia. This loss struck Ballard as a bitter and unexplained crime of nature...
...first theatrical experience at Harvard and it’s a great group of people.RR: How does it compare to your theatrical experience elsewhere?NM: It’s fun. It’s more fun than I thought. I mean, it’s such an uptight place, Harvard in general. I’ve found, as someone who’s kind of dabbled in a lot of things like athletics and whatever, it’s more time-consuming than anything else. People sometimes think theater is a wash, but we’re here...