Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arms & the Men. Du Pont took the H-bomb job with the greatest reluctance. Ever since a U.S. Senate committee investigated the munitions industry in 1934, Du Pont has sought to avoid anything that might revive the "merchants of death" stigma which the committee's inquisitor, a skillful young lawyer named Alger Hiss, helped hang upon it. But the Government thought that Du Pont was the only company for the job. Said an atomic energy expert: "To ask anybody else to build the plant when you could get Du Pont would be like settling for a rookie when...
Criticism of the new student porter plan has come fast and furious. Many students fell that it is unfair to raise room rents by 15 percent and at the same time reduce the amount of service. Others oppose the plan because they fear a stigma will be attached to such student workers...
Belying the fears of social stigma is the success of student porters at many colleges, including the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T. These schools report no sign of student antagonism. Furthermore, the 170 applicants who have expressed interest in the plan presumably do not feel that they will be stigmatized. Unquestionably, the plan, to be successful, requires some sacrifice, but the increased financial aid to students should be well worth...
Enthusiasm is certainly a quality to be encouraged, but it can seldon take the place of the polish and clarity of trained acting. The amateur theatrical organization's greatest stigma is amateurishness. "The Skin of Our Teeth" is a well-mentioned, lively production, but it never manages to escape that stigma...
M.I.T. student said yesterday that the system of student porters at 'Tech seems to work very well. They emphasized that no social stigma of any sort was attached...