Word: stigmas
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Soon, however, David and Harriet are forced to deal with the the realities of the dream. Harriet becomes pregnant again, this time with Ben, a monstrous child who takes over the household and infects the entire family with the stigma of abnormality...
...back." The objection is disingenuous, since Wallop thinks there is nothing to apologize for. It is also wrongheaded. Under the American system of tort law, wrongful harm is routinely acknowledged with cash payments. But to those interned, the formal apology and the removal of the stigma of disloyalty may count for far more than the cash. The country is also apologizing to itself for trampling its own core values. As the Senate bill says unflinchingly, the internment policy "was caused by racial prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership...
...curiosities that has accompanied Jackson's ascendancy is the tolerant silence of most elected officials and party leaders. For 15 years the Democrats have caucused, conferenced and connived to find ways to erase the stigma of McGovernism from the party. But now, as the party is forced to contemplate the nomination of a candidate far more divisive than a professorish two-term Senator from South Dakota, there are almost no voices publicly raised in opposition. Instead, the dominant sentiment is that of Mario Cuomo, who said, "The winner ought to be the candidate with a plurality. If Jackson...
...clan divided between struggling toward independence in the rural South and seeking a new life in the urban North, and it ends with a ritual exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words were 'We were slaves in the land of Egypt.' They are remembering events of thousands of years ago, not just a century. My work is about how the past must inform your...
...Stigma is nothing new for Dudley House. Some of the problems the Loebs currently face--including a rapidly changing population--date back to the house's origins in the 1930s. When Dudley began as a center for non-resident students, it catered mostly to local commuting undergraduates, who generally were poorer than the rest of the student body. During the great Depression and the introduction of the house system, these students often could not afford to live on campus...