Word: uptightness
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...Porcellian Club, pigs, pigs. The stoned vs. the straight, the freak vs. the pig-that is his Manichean worldview. And so we follow Peter Harkness from Boston to Berkeley, his suitcase crammed with grass, his mind constantly finding newer and better ways to elude the pigs, beat plastic, uptight America, take the money...
...hopelessness still haunt the nation's ghettos; all too many black Americans remain preoccupied with sheer survival. In fact, the gap between white and black family income overall continues to widen, despite remarkable gains by educated urban black families in the North and West. "How can people be uptight about the war and things like that when they have to worry about heat and hot water?" asks New York Congressman Charles Rangel...
...unwritten law of Harvard Square's newspaper dealers is made by Sheldon Cohen, owner of "Out of Town Newspapers, Inc." Procopio charged yesterday that Cohen's dislike for competitors has been the source of many of their troubles. "We are pennies compared to Cohen but he gets so uptight about us. We don't understand...
...rules; it's the man. Same as back in the world. A black man is the only one they grab for spitting on the streets. Over here if a bunch of brothers get together to blow some grass, right away the officers get uptight; in the next barracks over, white guys are doing the same thing, but nobody bothers them. The regs [Army Regulations] say you can grow your hair this long, but the first sergeant says he don't care what the regs say, because he don't like no black man with...
...crazy if you try to project what they'll do," Getchell said. "Freshman players are very open-ended. I spend the year teaching them an enormous amount of skills, but the kids are uptight as freshmen. They don't know exactly where they stand and can't assert themselves...