Word: stigmas
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Noting that the Goldwater platform had caused a "precipitate decline in Negro support," the liberals' report termed the 1964 election a "historic reversal rarely matched in politics," adding: "The party which had suffered the stigma in the South of being the 'black' Republican Party while most Negroes lacked the franchise, chose to ignore the Negro just as he was beginning to acquire political power...
Draft revision with more realistic opportunities for alternative service would improve the quality of both VISTA and Peace Corps volunteers. The "evasion mentality" now dominant among students on American campuses would largely disappear if volunteer service became a legitimate option. And the "unpatriotic" stigma would be removed from those willing to serve their country, but unwilling to fight or further a complex and dirty war in Vietnam. Revision would be the first step toward making the selective service genuinely selective; the sooner this step is taken, the better...
...immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade and a bad-conduct discharge. The sentence was eventually cut in half, and Schmidt was given a "general discharge," which ranks somewhere below "honorable" but does not carry the stigma of "dishonorable...
...ready for legalized pot yet, but that in comparison with the evils of liquor and cigarettes, pot was virtually harmless. "While a high sharpens your senses, liquor makes you dull and uncomfortable--especially the morning after." Many of the students felt that pot had unjustly been given a stigma, "but that's because people will never know about drugs until they've tried them. Even then they probably won't learn how to use it properly and will go away with a bad taste in their mouth...
...that "divorce is always a tragedy no matter how civilized the handling of it, always a confession of human failure, even when it is the sorry better of sorry alternatives." But Americans are more relaxed, tolerant and realistic about divorce than they used to be. Though vestiges of social stigma because of divorce still remain in small U.S. communities, most of the nation long ago decided that a happy divorce, when such can be accomplished, is better than an unhappy marriage, or what British Author A. P. Herbert called "holy deadlock...