Word: uptightness
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...will work on her new novel and some poetry as well. Last week Jong and her husband began separation proceedings. As Flying clearly implies and as Jong confirms, "there were problems in our marriage from the start-those of a very verbal person married to a very rigid, uptight...
Another gay student, who asked that his name not be used, said he will not wear jeans. "It's the sort of thing only very uptight, very inexperienced college students would dream up. It demeans a person's sexuality to make it all seem like a club," he said...
...some green spots," Coach Lee said after the match, "but we showed improvement." Relaxing now after a tense match, Lee added, "I don't know why I get so uptight at these matches...
Known homosexual activity has declined drastically both at Fort Worth and at Framingham, which has been coed since 1973. Explains Convicted Murderer Murdoch MacDonald, a Framingham resident: "Just to be around women releases uptight fantasies. It lessens homosexual actions." At the Robert...
What a delicious irony Gertrude Himmelfarb suggests: behind every hippie crying "Do your own thing" and "Let it all hang out" stands an uptight Victorian with tics and twitches. Her Exhibit A is that pre-eminent Victorian John Stuart Mill, child protégé and author of On Liberty (1854). Himmelfarb, professor of history at the City University of New York and author of Victorian Minds, constructs a careful case about Mill as the sponsor of what she takes to be the fallacious modern argument that since liberty is good, the more liberty the better...