Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak." Call our generation neopagan, secular or whatever, it is at odds with phoniness and insincerity. Our irreverent generation is not bent on overturning the past, but on crying out against the arbitrary embalming and sanctification of one historical moment. Our American lack of "tradition" is not our national stigma; our innate respect for and optimistic sense of an evolving human experience has been the unsung American contribution to modern civilization...
...middle income housing in the City. Whether or not the Belt finally comes, Cambridge clearly needs such additional housing. A sustained drive (beyond the projected impact of the Innr Belt) to provide it would be more effective than a simple relocation campaign and simultaneously remove any pro-Belt stigma...
Noting that the Goldwater platform had caused a "precipitate decline in Negro support," the liberals' report termed the 1964 election a "historic reversal rarely matched in politics," adding: "The party which had suffered the stigma in the South of being the 'black' Republican Party while most Negroes lacked the franchise, chose to ignore the Negro just as he was beginning to acquire political power...
Draft revision with more realistic opportunities for alternative service would improve the quality of both VISTA and Peace Corps volunteers. The "evasion mentality" now dominant among students on American campuses would largely disappear if volunteer service became a legitimate option. And the "unpatriotic" stigma would be removed from those willing to serve their country, but unwilling to fight or further a complex and dirty war in Vietnam. Revision would be the first step toward making the selective service genuinely selective; the sooner this step is taken, the better...
...immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade and a bad-conduct discharge. The sentence was eventually cut in half, and Schmidt was given a "general discharge," which ranks somewhere below "honorable" but does not carry the stigma of "dishonorable...