Word: uptightness
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...Uptight Management. Last week's eruptions were only replays, with minor variations, of earlier confrontations at meetings of American Telephone & Telegraph, United Aircraft, Alcoa, General Electric and Columbia Broadcasting System. The protesters were of varied persuasions-from Marxist-Maoist to Quaker-and they included many affluent young adults and teenagers. Much central guidance was supplied by the Washington-based New Mobilization Committee, which coordinates the activities of many groups opposed to the war in Viet Nam. New Mobe's avowed aims are to 1) end war production, 2) convert factories to peacetime work without layoffs and 3) gain...
BOND: I don't think it's inevitable. It is a possibility. This great mass of white middle America is getting more and more uptight. They are prone to violence. The black community is getting more uptight. And it is prone to answer violence. But I don't see a full-scale civil war in the sense of two clearly defined groups opposing each other violently. I think the black group is so small is so small that it would render itself almost impotent. I just don't think we could carry...
...double bill, Jakey Fat Boy, is a hilarious putdown of the hopped-up cult of being "with it." Much of the humor revolves around malicious In jokes about Kenneth Tynan, deviser of Oh! Calcutta! Jake, the hero (O'Connor), is obsessed by Tynan, referring to him as being "uptight with now," or else identifying with him: "I am up there with Ken Tynan and all the great lovers, all the major erotic figures." What Jake actually is, of course, is autoerotic, an onanistic intellectual voyeur...
...Harvard is deplorably behind in education. The education is so uptight and unlifelike. We hope to work through the CUE to open students' eyes to this so there can be at Harvard a semblance of the freedom we saw at the free universities," Bowman said...
...seemed concerned when Claude Brown wrote about addiction in Manchild in the Promised Land because most thought the drug problem was confined to the ghetto. Now they are uptight because it has spilled over into the better residential areas and the suburbs. Problems appear to be much more serious when they fail to recognize neighborhood boundaries and socioeconomic classes...