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...public service, we here at Uptight feel compelled to warn our clients about the subversive, scandalous and salacious advertising campaign currently being conducted by some of our competitors. I am referring specifically to ads in the local press that show two attractive young ladies coquettishly cavorting in what is variously described as a "linear jumpsuit" and a "turtle sock," but might more accurately be called an "allover nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: All-Over Nothing | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

John Krown. a third year law student and the spokesman for the group, said that the Harvard Law School was "uptight" and that the Yale students were offering "an alternative life-style to the impersonal atmosphere of Harvard Law." "We just want to sit down with the law students and communicate," he said. The Student Bar Association invited the group to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Bring Tent to Harkness | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...favor of the Indians. The new emphasis on the value of primitive societies, the growing U.S. concern over maintaining the ecological balance of the continent, the agitation of black nationalists for a separate but equal black culture in white America are all significant to Deloria. In some ways, too, uptight white institutions seem to be copying the Indian. With hardly any tongue in cheek, Deloria devotes a number of pages to a new form of white tribalism. What strikes his eye particularly is the clannishness and the need for reassurance implicit in the intertwined loyalties and duties that buttress giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Only When I Laugh | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...senior year, everything was relaxed and nobody suspected me, and one weekend this cat came from Alaska and he offered me some acid [LSD]. I was pretty uptight. I didn't think it would wreck my mind, but I was still scared. Then when it started to come on, I thought, "How could such beautiful stuff hurt me?" I really dig acid raps. That's when you talk to the cat you took acid with about anything that comes into your mind. Once a big Day-Glo ribbon materialized and hovered three or four inches above the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning On: Two Views: A TeenAger's Trip | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

After I took acid, I told my parents I had dropped [taken it]. They got really really uptight and said acid could make you go insane. But at least they didn't care about grass any more. They're just worried about grass because it's against the law. They never threatened to call the heat [police] or anything. They never even told me never to use drugs again. They just said: "Not in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning On: Two Views: A TeenAger's Trip | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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