Word: stigmas
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...sooner does a generation unlearn a racial epithet than the stigma loses its sting. Consider, for example, the burgeoning controversy over the title of a new Western film. The Legend of Nigger Charley. Paramount released the movie with the "historical explanation" that the character of Nigger Charley was based on black cowboys who roamed the West after the Civil War -a period in which the term was in common currency and not necessarily derogative. But Charley's well-documented credentials failed to satisfy a number of newspaper, television and radio advertising executives. For example, the Oregonian first changed...
...example was the case of eight sailors who deserted last October from the carrier Constellation as it made ready to depart for Indochina, and took refuge in a San Diego church. All received a general discharge from the Navy under honorable conditions, which carries no penalty and only slight stigma. Is it fair to let some go and not others, or to create a situation in which it is wiser to desert than to resist the draft? The FBI, after all, boasts of its record in catching resisters. Uneven justice is no justice. Another highly persuasive argument for amnesty...
...Humphrey himself come to dominate the race for the presidential nomination? Despite his relatively easy re-election to the Senate in 1970, he still carries the stigma of a loser who might not be able to win against a Nixon equipped with a series of presidential successes. Humphrey claims that on the Viet Nam issue he has as "good" a record since 1968 as any of the potential candidates. But there are those on the party's left who will never forgive him for not breaking with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam in the 1968 campaign. A Humphrey nomination...
...Happiness Surgery. Wagner averages 30 operations a week, one-third of them on men. The reason, he thinks, is that "we are enjoying a renaissance of the peacock look for men." Says another Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Dr. Byron Hardin: "A lot of stigma used to be attached to plastic surgery for men; there was a tendency to associate it with entertainers and homosexuals. But it's not freaky any more-it's just part of good grooming. I call it happiness surgery...
...Jazz Stigma. With notable exceptions like the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory, the nation's great music schools are way behind the general universities. Only in the last year, for example, have conservatories like Eastman and Manhattan begun to offer jazz during regular semesters. Juilliard and Curtis still do not. Until very recently, a student could be evicted from conservatory practice rooms just for playing jazz. And that is as nothing compared to the astonishing neglect accorded jazz in black colleges. Major black schools like Fisk, Tuskegee and Wilberforce still do not condone it. Perhaps...