Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentally ill people. Many seriously mentally ill people, with medical treatment, can recover to a degree that allows them to function adequately in mainstream society. The mentally ill are no longer people requiring quarantine from society. Mentally ill people, with the benefit of medication, can be indistinguishable from normal mentally healthy people...
When gays were not figures of suave or silly decadence, they were figures of fear, preying on normal people and meriting Hollywood's sternest judgment. They were murdered--and a good thing too--in Caged and Suddenly, Last Summer. The nicer ones were left to their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play...
This year, however, the inclement weather has become a particular hassle for those who play spring sports on the varsity level. The teams have yet to get outdoors, and with eight inches still on the ground, the prospect of normal practice seems more like a distant hope...
...definitely busier than normal, emergency-wise," said PAS Director of Operations Bill C. Mergendahl, citing an increase in the number of slip-and-fall incidents reported to his ambulance service...
Green said that students should use "normal, common sense behavior" such as walking in groups and using well-lit streets when traversing campus...