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...Texas, with 60 stores and a gross of more than $60 million a year. But he believes that laymen have a real preaching role: "Your listeners will figure 'He wouldn't be talking about religion if he hadn't experienced it,' and secondly the money stigma is removed. They realize it is costing you to devote time and energy to it, that you aren't trying to take anything from them...
Last year, when the seven House masters decided to slice out "entries" in the original of the plush Mt. Auburn street apartments, there were cries of "stigma, stigma." But now, the revolution seems complete. National Scholars open their mail where probationary students once trod; football players use the elevator that hauled the scions of the Gold Coast; average students joke about the resplendence that was, and the stigma that is gone...
...even with the stigma of a first novel, The Night of the Hunter cannot fail to be impressive. There is the local color of a Caldwell short story, and the sustained narrative of Galsworthy, both combined with the new, effective touch of Davis Grubb...
Watson last night called the change "highly successful in removing the old time stigma from Claverly...
While loss of citizenship does not put a person outside the law, as in feudal times when he was placed "outside the King's peace," such removal does carry a stigma. As such it is similar to punishments for crimes...