Word: stigmas
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...stigma of the earlier conflict remains, but the City is no longer strictly divided. In the winter of 1966, for example, the Cambridge City Council spawned a feud which dug deep into the City's political traditions and demonstrated that the old forces had lost much of their strength. The conventional political alignment had always pitted councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (a "good government" organization) against so-called independents, the non-endorsed councillors...
...only that, said the Herald, but women cheat more than men. The Charlotte Observer had scarcely finished discussing the social stigma of syphilis when it published a report on life inside a nearby women's prison. Along with elegantly displayed fashions, Long Island's Newsday furnished readers with a list of 13 ways to avoid a child molester - just as past women's pages would have listed the ingredients of a recipe...
Dutch theologians also reject original sin as an inherited spiritual stigma on the soul, instead regard the doctrine as a symbolic way of expressing the truth that man exists in a sinful, imperfect world. For that reason, some thinkers question the need for infant baptism. "To say that a human being is born damned and continues to be damned until he is baptized is utter nonsense," says Lay Theologian Daniel de Lange, secretary of The Netherlands' ecumenical center. Heaven and hell? Dominican Theologian Willem van der Marck shrugs them off as myth: "Heaven and hell just do not preoccupy...
...several inherent advantages as an instrument of suicide, aside from its ready availability. Because it cannot be clearly labeled, autocide not only avoids the social stigma attached to suicide, but also, as Arthur Miller's Willy Loman realized, almost automatically guarantees double indemnity on most life-insurance policies. There is even an emotional release not found in most other forms of self-destruction...
...every 23 males). Some pointed to a double standard in the fact that Lesbians may do as they like - free of any regulation by the law. Others contended that male deviates, living otherwise respectable lives, are liable to blackmail and are often driven to suicide because of the criminal stigma. Abse also pointed out that "to send homosexuals to overcrowded, hermetically sealed male prisons is as therapeutically useless as incarcerating a sex maniac in a harem...