Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court ordered the men to live only with their legal wives, but most of the women have dispersed throughout the state since the Governor overturned the Short Creek variety of paradise. Now 162 children are left with unwed mothers to grow up in orphan homes with an ugly stigma. With only a lone bachelor and a monogamous couple left, Short Creek's fields of hay and barley will parch under the hot Arizona...
...following spring, Governor Phips pardoned 150 people who had been imprisoned on witchcraft charges. The fury of the mania subsided as quickly as it had come, when Puritan good sense re-asserted itself. Soon the witchcraft trials were but an ugly memory, though Puritanism has never lost the stigma which the witch-hunts placed...
...observers point out that the new plan contains little that the USSR might find offensive. Unlike the Baruch proposals of 1945 which the Russians rejected, the Eisenhower offer makes no attempt to monopolize atomic power in an international commission. But even though the plan has been freed from this stigma, there seems little hope for its quick acceptance...
While in complete agreement with your desire for an eighth House at Harvard, I must take violent and wrathful exception to your remarks about "the Claverly problem." What Problem? What Stigma? Obviously this is an instance of inaccurate reporting (highly dangerous in view of your national circulation) based, perhaps, on actual interviews with Claverly residents who like to eat breakfast and hate the long walk to the dining halls. It is well known that consumers of breakfasts are not trustworthy...
That day has come. The Houses are clearly overcrowded. Although every bit of existing space is used, some 150 students must be shunted off to Claverly. Whether you call Claverly a Hall or a House Annex, it still has a stigma for those who live there. An eighth House would eliminate the Claverly problem; it would also alleviate some of the worst cases of crowding in the other Houses. And by the time a new House would become a reality, the yearly admissions rise could fill the rest...