Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With due respect, Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University, should be ashamed of the revelations by The New York Times that Harvard waived both the application deadline and fee to George Watson, a well-off Black student from New Jersey. As a Black student, I live with the stigma that I got into Harvard because I am black and not because I was "qualified." This burden increases with revelations of special treatment to well-off Blacks applying to the University...
Peremptory speeches by HRAC officers were included priceless gems of inanity. HRAC president N. Van Taylor '96 called the HRRC "a debating society" and HRAC second vice-president Brian J. Erskine '96 bemoaned the "stigma about being a Republican...
When he basked in the glory of the Gulf War, George Bush declared that the United States had finally kicked the "Vietnam syndrome"--referring to the stigma that was attached to losing the Vietnam war. Many analysts concurred. The Gulf War was supposed to prove that the United States was once again willing to stand up for the principles it held dear: democracy, independence and freedom from aggression...
...Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, a leading mental-health advocate, persuaded one North Carolina company to pull ads featuring cans of peanuts in straitjackets promoting a product line called Certifiably Nuts. One of her annual mental-health-policy symposiums at Emory University's Carter Center was devoted entirely to stigma issues. "We are all concerned about stigma," she says. "It holds back progress in the whole field...
...stigma is even being passed on to the next generation. DC Comics insists that Superman's killer was never meant to be portrayed as mentally ill, but another of its comics features a character named Shade. "Greetings from the mental states of America," said one of its early promotion circulars, "where every citizen has the right to remain deranged...