Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready for legalized pot yet, but that in comparison with the evils of liquor and cigarettes, pot was virtually harmless. "While a high sharpens your senses, liquor makes you dull and uncomfortable--especially the morning after." Many of the students felt that pot had unjustly been given a stigma, "but that's because people will never know about drugs until they've tried them. Even then they probably won't learn how to use it properly and will go away with a bad taste in their mouth...
...that "divorce is always a tragedy no matter how civilized the handling of it, always a confession of human failure, even when it is the sorry better of sorry alternatives." But Americans are more relaxed, tolerant and realistic about divorce than they used to be. Though vestiges of social stigma because of divorce still remain in small U.S. communities, most of the nation long ago decided that a happy divorce, when such can be accomplished, is better than an unhappy marriage, or what British Author A. P. Herbert called "holy deadlock...
...coordinate and supervise the entire radio operation, typifies WBZ's search for identity. When I referred to WBZ as a rock 'n' roll station, he told me, "You know, a lot of us hesitate to use the words rock 'n' roll. There's an image stigma attached to it. A lot1
...using the peace-keeping force to suppress revolution, the U.S. would shirk the stigma of intervention, while continuing to dominate O.A.S. decisions. But in the process, it would also risk splitting the Alliance for Progress, the linchpin of American diplomacy in this hemisphere, as well as the Organization of American States. Merely by pressing for the creation of the force, the U.S. will create serious dissension. Four Latin American nations--Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Uruguay--have soundly denounced the proposal. Five others -- Peru, Venczucla, Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica are -- known to be opposed. "This idea of collective action...
...weary smile, answers simply: "I have two sons and a daughter." To those who are repelled by the sound of his voice, he says, "That's a problem they should work out with their psychiatrist. There are lots of men with fine countertenor voices, but because of the stigma they were trained as baritones. Fortunately, I never had any voice lessons, and so my voice developed naturally...