Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences reported last spring that healthy adults should not be unduly worried about cholesterol in their diets, boosters of cholesterol-rich foods were gleeful. At last the stigma attached to beef, eggs and junk fare seemed to be lifting. But last week cholesterol's reputation as a major factor in heart disease was buttressed with the publication of a 20-year epidemiological survey of middle-aged American...
...necessarily a good thing." Sapers tried a semester at McGill University in Canada before arriving here, and he was surprised that "you definitely have to submerge something in yourself to get through at Harvard." Vowing to battle for his individuality, he nevertheless shakes his head about the "strange stigma" that comes with a Harvard diploma...
...being an also-ran is not a stigma in American politics; Reagan and Richard M. Nixon are notable examples of politicians who transcended their also-ran status. And chances are, politics being politics, many of the losers from the 1980 presidential race may risk becoming also-rans once again--as early as the morning after this election...
Ponder adds that Princeton's center has a stigma of being "radical" attached to it--although "because of this school's rabid conservatism, just about any political activity is deemed radical.'" Some white students, Ponder says, view the center as perpetuating prejudice. But that's usually the perception of those who don't care to find...
...hunters--and the townspeople they protected--often relaxed at the pub. Taverns had yet to acquire the stigma they would later bear--as the DAR charitably allowed, early taverns were "for the comfort of the townspeople, for the interchange of news and opinions, the sale of solacing drinks and sociability." So necessary were they that the city offered tax incentives for setting up shop. The legislature, in fact, threatened in 1656 to fine towns without bars. All the inducements paid off in 1671 when the Blue Anchor, later to become Bradish's, and still later Porter's, opened...