Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond this lack of care, the stigma of poverty inevitably leads to more physical and mental damage. For example, two reports of the center's social workers illustrate the kind of "disease" that doesn't occur in middle-class families...
...Sissy Stigma. Nijinsky, though, might have had a good chance. While the U.S. is developing more female dancers than it can productively use, there is still a dearth of male talent. Unlike Denmark, where women curtsy in the street when a ranking male dancer passes by, or Russia, where Bolshoi stars are accorded the same respect given to cosmonauts, the stigma of sissy still lingers in the U.S. Many dance schools offer free scholarships to any boy who will don tights; others patrol athletic clubs to recruit prospects. But the climate is changing: the ratio of girls to boys taking...
...mental hospitals is called "sick" or "irrational." But conversations with these students suggest that given the interaction of genetic predisposition, personal history, and the circumstances of the surroundings, "sick" actions are entirely logical. The sickness lies in the interpretation. The alienated student who cannot conform is branded with a stigma that pushes him further and further out until he reaches the hospital...
...Public Housing Leasing Program, under which the city pays the difference between what a low income family can afford and the rent for the housing. These arrangements will be kept confidential and families with rent subsidies will be scattered around the project. So they will not carry the stigma so often attached to low income families in huge, monolithic, low-income housing projects...
...more boyish "Teddy" is heard less and less, picks his issues with care, works diligently and displays tact with his elders. He can, and does, challenge leaders of both parties in disputes ranging from expanded social security benefits to ending the poll tax, but he avoids the maverick's stigma. He can and has gigged the Administration into paying closer heed to the Vietnamese refugee problem and dropping support for the National Rifle Association's annual matches, but he has not made himself controversial. In short, the senior Senator from Massachusetts seems determined to live up to John F. Kennedy...