Word: stigmas
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...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...
...city's ethnic population skyrocketed and members of the second generation became voters, the Irish emerged as a voting bloc that Cambridge's Yankee inhabitants could no longerignore. The Civil War gave the Irish the opportunity they needed to shed their stigma, for though many were not enthusiastic abolitionists, they enlisted readily...
...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...