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In Roedean's cloistered life, the girls have few chances to meet outsiders, are apt to give an impression of embarrassed uppityness when they do.

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But at least Barney Miller is not concentrating on one joke�Karen Valentine's shortness on Karen, George Jefferson's uppityness on The Jeffersons�or covering stupidity with loudness as they do on Hot L Baltimore.

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It is one thing for citizens to indulge themselves in democratic uppityness; it's quite another to sink into sullen discouragement.

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