Word: uptight
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Jeeez, Talk About Uptight--Candidates for the presidency of Harvard can be a little uptight about publicity. Just ask Thomas Ehrlich, president of Indiana University and reportedly a candidate for Harvard's top post. When a Crimson reporter asked his office to send a photograph and some biographical information for an upcoming story, the office refused to send anything...
...word "anal" gratuitously to describe people whom, at a normal school, would be described as "uptight." Unlike the typical Harvard student, I do not feel the need to demonstrate a facile knowledge of Freudian psychoanalytic theory at every possible opportunity by making a disturbingly graphic comparison between someone's behavior and a bodily orifice...
Most visitors to Mapplethorpe's controversial "The Perfect Moment" arrive eager to discover for themselves exactly what sort of art manages to get Jesse Helms so uptight. In this instance, they usually leave with the perception that it does not take much. Helms' charges that the pictures are pornographic can only reflect his artistic ignorance and socially illiteracy...
With some energetic organizers, there is no reason why a Spring Fling would be unsuccessful at Harvard. OK, so we're all uptight and the administration seems determined to stop us from enjoying ourselves. But other than that, there's no reason why Harvard students can't party in groups larger than a SONG meeting...
Others, though, in true New York City style, accused the accuser. "Why are you so uptight?" they would angrily ask. Since when, I wondered, is a ticket-taker's uptightness grounds for free admission to a formal dance...