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...about a year the couple will live together as man and wife. This "trial" may be discontinued at any time without social stigma. Children remain with their mother and are accepted by the new husband in case of separation and remarriage. Two "trials" seem to be the maximum, and eighty per cent of the couples get married in the Church at the end of their first. A yearly ronda, or roundup, keeps the ancient system working smoothly. The alcades, traditional religious leaders of the community, stage midnight raids on all houses and cornfields where they suspect that unmarried couples...
...educators, including President Pusey, the NDEA meant more than an aid-to-loyal-scholars-in-this-time-of-crisis grant; it represented to him and others a governmental recog- nition that higher education was generally worth subsidizing. Despite numerous demands that Harvard refuse to accept funds with a loyalty stigma, Pusey originally continued the University's participation in the NDEA program and stated that he "applauds the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the... Act." At the same time, he labeled the loyalty provision "odious...
...opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice in an exhibition designed to remove the stigma from Crivelli. The works, many of them panels from polyptychs that have not been seen as a whole for generations, come from scores of U.S. and European museums and churches-a sumptuous splurge of color surpassed by no other exhibition put on this summer...
Superstition's Stigma. Although history's epileptics feature such notables as Mohammed and Napoleon Bonaparte, the vast majority have been stigmatized by superstitions that attribute the disease to demons. The actual cause is unknown, but seems to be related to a disturbance in the cerebral cortex. A patch of the cerebral cortex-the brain's command post -gets irritated, and sends out waves of involuntary impulses. On the receiving end, the body muscles respond with spasmodic convulsions-the epileptic seizure. In the average victim, the seizure passes within five minutes. Drugs, among them Dilantin and phenobarbital, eliminate...
...epileptics, life is still full of persecutions. Owing to a belief that epilepsy is inherited-actually, so far as is known, only a "predisposition" can be inherited-in ten states epileptics cannot marry, in 18 they can be sterilized. Federal law bars epileptic immigrants. Nowhere is the stigma felt more painfully than in job hunting, despite progress in recent years. The civil service, for example, will hire epileptics "provided that their seizures are adequately controlled and their placements selective." In a recent survey, 73% of Arizona manufacturing firms said they would not hire epileptics. Reason: fear that they are accident...