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...Said Lecky, "Of that Byzantine Empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, with scarcely an exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
Beyond the Law? But in the court's decision a flock of pundits and commentators thought they found backing for their long-argued opinion that the use of the Fifth Amendment carries with it no public stigma, social, economic or otherwise. The Supreme Court, wrote New York Timesman James Reston, had spoken out "emphatically'' against the "popular tendency" of assuming that a witness "must be guilty of some wrongdoing if he invokes the Fifth Amendment." Thus it was claimed the court had rebutted President Eisenhower's recent commonsensical remark that...
...interesting that the Church should let pass numerous cheap, fallacious films, and rise in arms against a film which has the immediate stigma of being "arty" and thus slightly distasteful to the mass of the moviegoing public. Whether one approves of the Kazan-Williams viewpoint or not, Baby Doll is as intensely serious and thoughtful a film as the American cinema has ever produced. A continuing condemnation of frank and disturbing films may be a further push along the road to a thoughtless mediocrity in the mass media...
Under orders from Washington to erase the stigma of the disciplinary night march that resulted in the death of six recruits a year ago, the top brass of the Parris Island training base have been quick to court-martial drill instructors accused of mistreating their recruits. Last month Corporal William R. Walsh, the eleventh D.I. charged within a year, was found guilty of illegally "touching" 18-year-old Boot David Lee Porter. Sentenced to 30 days at hard labor, fined $120 and broken to private, Walsh took his punishment like a Marine. But there was someone else at Parris Island...
...factors that makes the Swarthmore program particularly interesting for Harvard is that Swarthmore itself has recently experienced difficulties in keeping up the interest of nonhonors, or "course" students. The school, under President Courtney C. Smith '38, a Harvard Overseer, is currently working to reduce the stigma of not going out for honors, for by setting off half its upperclassmen in a distinctive program, Swarthmore has created morale problems for the others...