Word: stigmas
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...spotted him among this cadre of new novelists, who became part of the curriculum for an American literary renaissance. The smart writers paid no attention. Neither life nor art traipses after textbooks, and the Mailers and Vidals went their separate ways. But Bourjaily, now 54, has never escaped the stigma of premature recognition. On the appearance of each of his next five novels, he was cuffed for failing to live up to a promise that others had made...
...With 19,000 Warsaw Pact tanks stationed on our borders we cannot afford to become anything that would resemble the Germany of old. The Soviets would never tolerate it. Moreover, would Western Europe accept German leadership? Three decades after WW II the German Federal Republic continues to bear the stigma of the Third Reich. We have no political legitimacy: every time Bonn refuses to revalue the mark to help out the French franc, French newspapers publish editorials about "Iron Chancellors" and "German hegemony." We are still a very controversial subject...
...probably could not have children as a result, she sued Duke in his home state of Wyoming. Housen's lawyer, Gerry Spence of Casper, cites his client's courage: "Imagine having the guts to come to a little Wyoming courtroom and cut away the shame and the stigma of the disease, and to say in effect for the first time in American jurisprudence that we can bring matters of this nature out into the open and deal with them publicly." The jury was impressed, ordering Duke to pay $1.3 million. The decision might open an entire new field...
...supposed to let sex sort of happen to her. Traditionally, she's not supposed to want to make sex; nor, as a wife, is the woman traditionally allowed to make money. In her domestic role she is supposed to provide sexual services, among others. Chesler and Goodman note the stigma that results when the married woman's usual duties are connected with money--both the prostitue and the maid are commonly labeled low-class creatures. In a pretty devious way, a predominant feminine image turns out not to mix with a yen for money and the power, respect and independence...
...sure that Harvard, women, and young people have not gained any stigma from all this," Tristman said...