Word: uptightness
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Being nerds, however, they are rather unworldly. They are similar in dress, zip code, outlook and philosophy to the Berkeley free-speech activists of the early 1960s, except that the cypherpunks have a bigger megaphone: the Internet. They can encrypt free speech and software as well, so various uptight authority figures cannot stop their heroic data...
...possible that I'm just uptight, but publicly shouting such refrains--especially when no one in particular is listening--just makes me embarrassed...
Drinkers of the world, unite! Less uptight and oppressively preppy than Grafton, closer than the Cellar, the Bow is a Harvard tradition. In an era of steadily diminishing social options, the last thing we need here is to eliminate the few we have left. Besides, where else will you end up at midnight on your twenty-first birthday--the Grille...
...Harvard's a much more uptight place in 1999 than in 1979," he explains. "I think your generation has a lot less fun than your parents...
...know why Harvard is so uptight about a fledgling institution," he said, adding that he sees Concord bringing education to students who cannot easily access...