Word: stigmas
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...Stigma. The suit was filed by the father of a mental patient in Manhattan State Hospital on Welfare Island, claiming that the hospital was negligent in not preventing his daughter's rape by another inmate. That negligence, he charged, not only caused his daughter suffering, but a pregnancy that brought forth an infant deprived of "property rights ... a normal childhood and home life . . . proper parental care, support and rearing." For his daughter's suffering, he asked $50,000 in damages, for his granddaughter-now two years...
...life and his death, on the requirements of his thoughts and of his heart?" asked Garaudy. "Not at all. If the greatness of religion proves itself in the exigency of answering these questions, the weakness is in pretending to answer them in a way that carries the stigma of insufficiency. The protest of atheism has, for this reason, a cathartic value...
...last there is a writer indifferent enough to the stigma of the word "square" to describe pornographers [April 16] for what they are-stultified and frustrated hacks who in their great crusade for "artistic" freedom and "broadmindedness" manage to be just two things: prisoners of their own vapidity and excruciatingly narrow-minded bores...
...often outdrinks her escorts, despite the fact that when Oswald was alive he forbade her to drink hard liquor. She chain-smokes, though Oswald once slapped her for smoking a cigarette in his presence. So far, she has refused to change her name, although she worries some about the stigma affecting her children, June Lee, 2, and Rachel, 1. She has had mountains of marriage proposals and other bizarre propositions (a man from Kentucky offered her $50,000 if she would let him exhibit Oswald's body in a sideshow, another $100,000 if she would accompany the display...
Washington spends $2,000,000 a year tossing drunks in the workhouse along with thieves and gamblers; the money might better be used for a treatment center. The setup "stinks," fumes Washington Corrections Department Director Donald Clemmer. "The real alcoholic is not a criminal and should not bear the stigma of imprisonment...