Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow who escaped the stigma of being a high school dropout only by never dropping in, James R. Jones, 37-year-old Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the Ku Klux Klan, lives mighty high on the hog. Though he never progressed past grammar school and has worked until recently as a lightning-rod salesman, Jones, who lives in Granite Quarry, N.C., drives a 1964 Cadillac as well as a 1964 station wagon, and seemingly has plenty of spending money. Soon, if all turns out as planned, Night Rider Jones will become a night flyer...
President Gamal Abdel Nasser has for months sought an end to the bloody, three-year-old civil war in Yemen that would not carry with it the stigma of humiliating defeat for Egypt. An expeditionary force of some 50,000 Egyptian troops was not able to do the job. Neither was a series of palavers between delegates of the unstable republican regime of Abdullah Sallal and those of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Yemen's deposed Imam Badr...
...Stigma. The suit was filed by the father of a mental patient in Manhattan State Hospital on Welfare Island, claiming that the hospital was negligent in not preventing his daughter's rape by another inmate. That negligence, he charged, not only caused his daughter suffering, but a pregnancy that brought forth an infant deprived of "property rights ... a normal childhood and home life . . . proper parental care, support and rearing." For his daughter's suffering, he asked $50,000 in damages, for his granddaughter-now two years...
...life and his death, on the requirements of his thoughts and of his heart?" asked Garaudy. "Not at all. If the greatness of religion proves itself in the exigency of answering these questions, the weakness is in pretending to answer them in a way that carries the stigma of insufficiency. The protest of atheism has, for this reason, a cathartic value...
...last there is a writer indifferent enough to the stigma of the word "square" to describe pornographers [April 16] for what they are-stultified and frustrated hacks who in their great crusade for "artistic" freedom and "broadmindedness" manage to be just two things: prisoners of their own vapidity and excruciatingly narrow-minded bores...