Word: uptightness
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...when the uptight are continually exhorted to let it all hang out and be in touch with their feelings, it is curious that no one calls anyone else a Byzantine logothete any more. That is what Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson; and, while a Byzantine logothete is not the worst thing you can say about someone-it means a glorified accountant-it does suggest a certain largesse of contempt that is missing from modern life. A government official is fired from a high post and he cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column...
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...