Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different things to different people. The Vietnamese can rebuild their country, on a new foundation of equality and independence, with time for the wounds the war has left to heal. For the American government that inflicted these wounds, the end of the war is a defeat, a humiliation, a stigma, to be minimized in the eyes of the world and forgotten as quickly as possible. But for all President Ford's admonitions that we put Vietnam behind us, we cannot forget it. Too many innocent people died there, too much of our knowledge of the United States and the world...
...play basketball here because I'm not impeded by the stigma any longer. Besides, it's a change of pace. If you play one sport all year round, it needs some refreshing," Muscatine said...
Louise, unlike most of Kaplan's other characters, just takes it all in. Other peoples' lives beckon her because, ashamed of her past and uncertain of her future, she has so little life of her own. Her self-image is wrapped up in the stigma of "craziness," so she flees from it, finding forgetfulness through absorption in the petty doings of people she scarcely knows...
...only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been a medical microbiologist for 23 years and unemployed for the past 17 months. Says she: "Nobody is going to hire a microbiologist to drive a bus. But I'm prepared to handle that. On job application forms...
Byker said that eliminating the present distinction between middle and lower group courses--one of the reforms still under consideration--and offering a choice of classes to all freshmen is being "seriously considered." He said that the current resentment and stigma felt by students in lower group courses more than offset the possible advantages of possible homogeneity of talent within the group...