Word: stigmas
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Louise, unlike most of Kaplan's other characters, just takes it all in. Other peoples' lives beckon her because, ashamed of her past and uncertain of her future, she has so little life of her own. Her self-image is wrapped up in the stigma of "craziness," so she flees from it, finding forgetfulness through absorption in the petty doings of people she scarcely knows...
...only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been a medical microbiologist for 23 years and unemployed for the past 17 months. Says she: "Nobody is going to hire a microbiologist to drive a bus. But I'm prepared to handle that. On job application forms...
...think that black people have been afraid to get into the Blues. It's just that there's a stigma attached to the Blues: down South, black, dark, ignorant, illegitimate children, hookers, gamblers, killers, knifers, razor blades, Ma Dixon's Douche Powder....A lot of people see different kinds of music individually because they don't understand the stream from where it all comes from...
Byker said that eliminating the present distinction between middle and lower group courses--one of the reforms still under consideration--and offering a choice of classes to all freshmen is being "seriously considered." He said that the current resentment and stigma felt by students in lower group courses more than offset the possible advantages of possible homogeneity of talent within the group...
...lawyer, bearded, long-haired Ira M. Lowe, revealed in court what his client had pleaded. Ehrlichman, said Lowe, had expressed his "profound regret" for his role in the Watergate conspiracy. Wrote Ehrlichman: "I have been found to be a perjurer. No reversal on appeal can remove the stigma." Lowe said that Ehrlichman had asked to be allowed to spend his sentence working with 6,000 Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, using his legal talents to help them with land-use problems. If he were permitted to do that, he said that he would make no effort to appeal his conviction...