Word: uptightness
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...expected to kiss everyone else." The human-potential movement has occasionally made a travesty of E.M. Forster's "Only connect!" From the hot tubs of Marin County to the baths of Esalen, the rule prevails: Whoever kisses you, you kiss back, lest you be thought to be uptight. At times, kissing carries a political message. Some feminists kiss other women on the lips in order to prove something about transcending sexuality. American men rarely kiss other men, unless they are father and son, or unless they are homosexual, in which case a public buss on the cheeks or lips...
...bothered California voters little. More troublesome was that Tunney answered every question put to him in voluble Senatorese, appeared overanxious to please, and shifted views on such major issues as natural gas deregulation and national health insurance. On TV, Tunney, despite his reputation as a swinging, divorced playboy, seemed uptight, while Hayakawa displayed a jaunty-and politically effective-cool...
Nancy suspects that the reason people become more tolerant at night is that the dark provides a sense of safety, allowing uptight people to "let go." People make themselves believe that they and others can't really see what they're doing, or hear what they're saying. Besides that, she theorizes, a lot of people under pressure are finally able to relax at night when their daytime responsibilities have been completed...
...honor code should function is what happens at the University of Virginia. At initiation, students will be told, "All right, ladies and gentlemen, we don't lie, cheat or steal, and now we'll talk about your curriculum." At West Point, the whole thing is so uptight that it creates an atmosphere of repressiveness. It breeds people looking for violators...
...conceivably lead to defeat. Downing a beer in a Cleveland bar and listening to bluegrass one night, Forman flailed his arms and wailed, "I'm not upset about anything! That's wrong--What can I get upset about?" Later, he said sardonically, "At least you see what a paranoid, uptight thing a campaign...