Word: stigmas
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...Double Stigma...
...prosecutors know that they have no great public mandate to wage a war on cocaine?a war they admit, realistically, they could not win. "They never got rid of pot," says René, 29, a Western publishing executive, "and they won't make a dent in cocaine. There's no stigma." Cocaine retains its less and less valid cachet as the plaything of athletes, entertainers and other starry achievers. Says DEA Agent James Burke of Denver: "The mystique, the myths and the respectability are all working against...
...euphoric effects of cocaine are well known. Heroin kills more of its users, but it acquired a uniquely dark stigma partly because of the backward quality of the opiate high: blissfully heedless, droopy, tuned out, lazy beyond words. Stimulant cocaine, however, is far more in tune with the swaggering mood of a country of nonstop gogetters. Users tend to have the perfect illusion, for 20 or 30 minutes, that they are smarter, sexier and more competent, radiant, vigilant, masterful, better: it promotes a kind of fascism of the self. (Indeed, Hermann Goring, a morphine user, is rumored to have used...
...appointees by the tradition-minded American Bar Association are nearly the same as those given to Carter's. About 6% in each group got the highest ranking, "exceptionally well qualified"; while Carter named three judges who were found "not qualified," none of Reagan's has suffered that stigma. Says one Democratic aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee: "There have been some ultraconservative judges, but there has been an absence of real clinkers." (For brief profiles of three Reagan judges, see below...
...strangely amorphous group of undergraduates which is split between those who for one reason or another have chosen to live out-side the College and those who have been forced to do so. The former rarely seek association within the House, and the latter, resentful of the stigma of the outcast, tend to stay away unless forced to visit for administrative reasons...