Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sake. All just pretend, of course, as affable Frank lazed around the 19th Precinct station house in pursuit of the title role of a movie called The Detective. Sinatra also made his first appearance as chairman of the American Italian Anti-Defamation League, which seeks to remove the stigma of gangsterism from the land that produced Dante, Michelangelo, Columbus, Mussolini and Capone. Nearly 20,000 fans turned out at Madison Square Garden for the Anti-Def rally, and the chairman played it with his usual style. He arrived in time to miss all the speeches, sang six old Italian ballads...
...thousand times: how people up North just don't know the Negro like we do down here, how we have had wonderful relationships with the family Negroes for over 20 years, and how we both prefer social distance from each other. Styron also knows that the Southern racial stigma is based more on a lack of contact than on friction or closeness. There still exists a deeply feared law of apartheid in the South, and it precludes intimacy between whites and blacks at any level...
...There will come a time when the stigma will be removed, when we will be able to marry the person of our choice without regard to color or race or religion, and with society's blessings. A time when persons of diverse backgrounds will marry and go unnoticed by the nation's news media, and the wagging tongues of our populace. When that day arrives, then we will indeed have won the battle against racial and religious intolerance...
...corporations have often found it difficult to recruit top foreign talent for their overseas executive suites. Lately, however, laboring for the Yankee dollar has begun to lose its stigma. Last week, in one of the year's more remarkable personnel coups. International Business Machines landed the Earl of Cromer, former governor of the Bank of England, as chairman of its subsidiary IBM United Kingdom holdings...
...Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...