Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something new in the Advocate, an editorial, attacks a prime stigma of our generation--a lack of moral attitude. Although the high-blown writing obscures the argument at vital points, the blame appears to lie both with the university and the student "intellectual coterie." If the author considered all possible results of his conclusion (that the university stamp a common belief in the nature of ethical principles on the student) he might hesitate and frown a little more...
...Kuhn admits that it has been "quite a struggle" to rid the Museums of the stigma born of forty years of national hatreds, but he is satisfied with the progress Busch-Reisinger has made toward its triple goal: to serve the art department, the German department, and the General needs of the University...
...Stigma & Tears. Some of the teachers used their turn on the witness stand for bellicose assaults on the committee's motives. Several members of the Teachers' Union made unfriendly remarks about their former associate, Bella Dodd, a repentant Communist who had been a friendly witness two weeks before (TIME, Sept. 22). Said Art Teacher Irving Glucksman: "I don't want to be a victim of any lying stool pigeon or any religious fanatic who thinks he is serving God by impoverishing the minds of children...
...Brooklyn College, rejoined: "Do you mean like when you go somewhere with someone? That is an embarrassing question." Pressed for a direct answer, he refused to give one. Cried James Nack, Teachers' Union treasurer, who testified that he was not a Communist: "Just being called creates a stigma which, if I were a woman, I would burst into tears...
...authorities were under no illusion that they had abolished the tribes' preference for ancestral occupations; but with the stigma of hereditary crime removed, they hoped to convince the tribes eventually that crime does...