Word: stigmas
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...Negro in the country, Brooke as a United States senator would soothe the consciences of the majorities which re-elected an anti-bussing school board on more local and personal issues. The presence of a Republican Negro in the Senate would also help to remove the Goldwater stigma from the national party, which is still suffering from the civil rights issue. Brooke rejected Goldwater in the 1964 campaign, as well as in his book...
...peak." Call our generation neopagan, secular or whatever, it is at odds with phoniness and insincerity. Our irreverent generation is not bent on overturning the past, but on crying out against the arbitrary embalming and sanctification of one historical moment. Our American lack of "tradition" is not our national stigma; our innate respect for and optimistic sense of an evolving human experience has been the unsung American contribution to modern civilization...
...result, Carter filed suit, charging that his "arbitrary and capricious" discharge had violated his right to privacy as well as his future employment prospects. Later, when Carter applied for a job in a Washington bank, two of his three roommates loyally volunteered character-reference letters to help offset the stigma of being an ex-FBI man at 25. The third refused to help Carter; instead, he told his superiors about his friends' action, which also violates the FBI code. The upshot was that all three-including the informer-were pressed to resign because none had reported Carter...
Foremost in Luci's thoughts at the moment is her Aug. 6 wedding to Patrick J. Nugent. Eager to dispel the stigma of a teen-age marriage, she coolly reasons that by August, Pat will be 23 and she will have turned 19, concludes therefore that "our ages will average out at over 21." Adds the bride...
...middle income housing in the City. Whether or not the Belt finally comes, Cambridge clearly needs such additional housing. A sustained drive (beyond the projected impact of the Innr Belt) to provide it would be more effective than a simple relocation campaign and simultaneously remove any pro-Belt stigma...