Word: uptightness
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...pass four years. Harvard is over-estimated. It is no doubt the greatest university in the world in many respects, and certainly extraordinarily efficient at grinding out hard-working professionals. But at a basic human level Harvard is sadly devoid of charm or style. Students there are mostly uptight, immature and inarticulate...
...this absurdity is the well balanced slapstick and caricatured roles. The establishment is represented by truly Establishment figures clad in uptight strait-laced uniforms of preppie pink satin and navy pin stripe, a glossy Chivas Regal wealth versus patched jeans-adolescent revolt. It's fun to watch Treat Williams traipsing across an elaborately laid banquet table, trying to maximize shattered crystal in his path. It's not to be taken seriously, and thereby doesn't offend our sophisticated Seventies cynicism...
...People Be So Cruel," mother and angelic, teary eyed three-year old too-loudly protest to the breadwinning hulk who has left them for hedonistic diversion with the mindless Annie Golden, pregnant with yet another teary eyed mulatto. Annie advises the abandoned mother not to be so uptight, we all love each other, it's cool...But even these gushing scenes are appropriate to the rhythm of levity and humor, and don't really deserve scathing criticism...
...this era of sexual emancipation are parents as uptight as of yore in discussing sex with their kids? Yes, indeed. That at least was the word last week from a Kinsey-type study called Family Life and Sexual Learning, prepared by the Project on Human Sexual Development. The researchers spent three years probing the attitudes of 1,400 mostly young Cleveland parents and concluded that they are as reticent in talking about sex as their parents were. The report's highlights...
...changes, however, have been for the worse, he says. He feels the fact that students are studying more than ever before is a healthy sign, though sometimes the pressure and competition, he admits, may make students a bit too uptight...