Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that made the situation more tragic than necessary; after all, Radcliffe girls were largely middle-class and their families could support the child. It was because of petty ideas that the girl was so disgraced and the child made unwanted--just as fifty years ago it was a legal stigma to be a "bastard." I said also, if I remember, that if my daughter had become pregnant in college, my wife and I would have been annoyed at having to baby-sit, but we would have simply adjusted to it, for she is our daughter and a baby...
These days, more and more doctors can afford long weekends and longer vacations; more and more of them are unavailable for late night calls. Even the better-heeled patients soon come to see no social stigma attached to a trip to the emergency room when their own physician cannot be reached. Poorer patients who once took their non-emergency sniffles, coughs and diarrhea to daytime outpatient clinics now tend to wait for evening and treatment in an emergency room. Such a visit usually means no time off from work. Today, says Dr. Kennedy sardonically, an emergency is "anything from which...
...minds of Negro pupils and parents," says New Jersey's State Commissioner of Education Frederick M. Raubinger, "a stigma is attached to attending a school whose enrollment is completely or exclusively Negro, and this sense of sting and resulting feeling of inferiority has an undesirable effect on attitudes related to successful training." Raubinger has issued orders to end de facto segregation in three New Jersey communities. In the same vein, a former foe of "social engineering via bussing," Dr. John Fischer, president of Columbia's Teachers College, warns that schools must "take positive action to bring Negro children...
Even before the trouble, people here were working toward a peaceful solution to the race problem. Now we must not only intensify our efforts, but we must try to live down the widespread stigma of our terrible Thursday...
...wrote the screenplays, composed the music, directed the actors, and produced the film, which is almost totally free from the stigma of the studio. His settings are real houses, forests, and-a Ray trademark-marshy riverbanks; and his people are as real as their surroundings...