Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view of the challenge he set himself, Lumet deserves pardon for a few tactical mistakes. He has come up with a film sufficiently slick and commercial to avoid the stigma of a pseudo-Bergman exploration of the soul, yet without cheapening the gravity of the questions that arise from the struggle between Dysart and his young patient. Much of the credit for this achievement must of course go to Shaffer's extraordinary script. But such a nod to the playwright in no way lessens the triumph of the man behind the camera...
...those who resisted during the war in Vietnam. Draft evaders, who were generally white, middle-class, and college-educated, received a blanket pardon. Deserters, however, who were largely black, poor, or ill-educated, were given the burden of applying to have their discharges upgraded to erase the official stigma. Those who were aware of the program, who were not afraid of battling the bureaucracy once more, and who were eligible for the program, were given upgraded discharges. But the process should have been much simpler. In many cases, deserters displayed supreme moral courage in their resistance in Vietnam...
...state in the 1890s. Against a storm of political pressure, Altgeld pardoned three anarchists who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1886 during the public hysteria that followed Chicago's Haymarket Riot. Lavette, Paine and Altgeld all start out poor, and all have to battle the stigma of being outsiders...
...cases and scores of deaths were registered, but the official figures in several countries were deliberately understated-for reasons of national pride, trade and tourism. Says Dr. Reinhard Lindner, a World Health Organization (WHO) communicable disease expert: "Cholera is the hush-hush disease of our time. It bears the stigma of dirt and ignorance...
...there is a certain social stigma associated with the building. Dom Pantano, a transfer student placed in the overflow housing, said last week that when he tells people where he lives they say, "Oh, you live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...