Word: stigmas
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Secondly, Hopkins shows how heavily attitudes toward homosexuality are socially conditioned. If Alan were leaving his wife for another woman, she would be dismayed but resigned. It is the social stigma and the half-sniggering, half-pitying gossip of friends and acquaintances that disturb her so deeply...
...books to high school for four years reminded her of her father's "Harvard bag." Apparently there is such a beast. And if you don't know what she was talking about, think back to Love Story. For the most part, those big green "Harvard bags" carry no stigma around here so if you want to invest in one, they're a useful commodity, especially when the snows come...
...explanation of the sect's success in the U.S. is that the Guru Maharaj Ji is indeed (gulp) God. If this is an unpalatable hypothesis, there are more mundane explanations. Perhaps the attraction is to a group with all the psychic benefits of old-time religion, but without the stigma attached to them in a liberal society...
...lonely grey-beards who comb sports statistics in places like Podunk, Kansas, are not apt to be upset by the Crimson lacrosse team's ninth place rating in New England, but it is with the stigma that the stickmen journey to New Hampshire today for an all-important tilt with fourth-ranked Dartmouth...
...shut out. Some argue that the election was already lost when faithful Democrats gazed at the convention on television, did not see a soul on the floor they recognized, and did not care for those they did see. The prospect now is for a new formula that avoids the stigma of the quota system. It would give the traditional factions some additional strength and at the same time retain some of the gains won by the reform wing...