Word: uptightness
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...tension. He embodies an inner need to be hip at the risk of seeming silly, the struggle not to give in to the indignity and/or insanity of contemporary life. The two pseudo-hipsters in the park, and thousands more like them, have made Elliott Gould a star for an uptight age. In Gould they see all their tensions, frustrations and insecurities personified and turned into nervous comedy that both tickles and stings with the shock of recognition...
Nonetheless, Dr. Berman's cycle as a member of the Committee on National Priorities had ended. Lamenting that "the whole world seems to be uptight," he resigned, still insisting that women "are different...
...quaint, pleasant place to shop, where anyone can feel comfortable." One that would once more attract "the suburban housewives" and "the little insurance girls and secretaries from Boston" who used to shop in the Square, but don't now because the dirty panhandlers and the violence make them feel uptight...
Touch and Tell. In the first groups she entered, Jane felt dismissed as an "uptight Easterner" and got off some bitchy backchat: "You don't interest me as much as I seem to interest you." Loosening a little, she began to make Freudian howlers that commonly afflict the beginner in therapy-as when, pretending to be a mailbox, she blithely announced: "I'm hoping for a lot of good long letters." But soon her antennae told her that she was not the only one out of step. All was not well in the land of touch and tell...
...window of the Bank of America. Who needs laughs when everybody is doing his thing? Like a patient who has just finished analysis, the emancipated (at last!) American is inclined to regard his lack of humor as evidence of strength. Laughs are just wiggles in the corsets of the uptight, he thinks...