Word: stigmas
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...than heretics, are in a quandary. While recognizing the efficacy of "liberalization" as a cultural safety valve, they also realize that in the current Sino-Soviet ideological fracas, it is necessary to impose a certain amount of discipline in order to close ranks behind Moscow. Anxious to avoid the stigma of Stalinism, the satellite governments have for the present forsworn arrest and imprisonment in favor of less drastic measures, such as "educational" discussions of "erroneous views." Items...
Although he plans to remain in the North for the rest of his life, Pettigrew retains an almost organic closeness to the South. "It's a stigma I can't get rid of" he says, "but then again I don't really want to. I love the damned South. That's why I spend my life studying it, writing about it and speaking on it. I feel responsible for it--that's the reason I can dislike Wallace with a kind of feeling that I can't work up for Mrs. Hicks. I share the blame for Wallace...
...just about the time when Marimekkos and low heels were becoming marks of style, not pregnancy, pierced ears lost the stigma of a sailor's tattoo, and gained the status of a purple heart. The change was part of a broader fashion revolution which favored Bohemia over Balenciaga, Greek book bags over alligator pocketbooks, and sandals over spike heels. Greenwich Village was invading Park Avenue; the outs were...
...that made the situation more tragic than necessary; after all, Radcliffe girls were largely middle-class and their families could support the child. It was because of petty ideas that the girl was so disgraced and the child made unwanted--just as fifty years ago it was a legal stigma to be a "bastard." I said also, if I remember, that if my daughter had become pregnant in college, my wife and I would have been annoyed at having to baby-sit, but we would have simply adjusted to it, for she is our daughter and a baby...
These days, more and more doctors can afford long weekends and longer vacations; more and more of them are unavailable for late night calls. Even the better-heeled patients soon come to see no social stigma attached to a trip to the emergency room when their own physician cannot be reached. Poorer patients who once took their non-emergency sniffles, coughs and diarrhea to daytime outpatient clinics now tend to wait for evening and treatment in an emergency room. Such a visit usually means no time off from work. Today, says Dr. Kennedy sardonically, an emergency is "anything from which...