Word: stigmas
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...Mexican people feel instinctively a repulsion from Protestant propaganda. The names Protestant, Methodist, Presbyterian fall on Mexicans as a species of stigma because of the marked character of the North American dominion all these Protestants bring to Mexico. Hence the popular opinion that Protestantism is one of the elements upon which a powerful neighboring nation counts to effect slowly but surely domination, hegemony or realization of its imperialism in our land...
...measure of punishment and condemnation until the students as a community once more see things in the same light as themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
...action of the American Unitarian Association in adopting a resolution to promote the birth control movement deserves nothing but commendation. The finger of stigma pointed by modernists at petrified Orthodexy has for once received sufficient proof to the contrary. Any technical discussion of the pros and cons regarding birth control properly belongs to the physician. The qualification to be introduced is only that it should be extended to the general practitioner as well as the highly specialized medicinal student of research...
...this applies to the most recent achievements of the Club, plays by such conventional authors as John Galsworthy and A. A. Milne, is not explained. The CRIMSON further allows that "by avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma" of producing "amateur theatricals;" at the same time, however, the editorial ventures that a "Liliom" would not be amiss. The conclusion would seem to be that principles are all very well, so long as nobody applies them: that the Dramatic Club may have principles, but that it must avoid a Policy...
...avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma of "amateur theatrical" a term which so effectively damps with faint praise many similar groups throughout the country. And with the experimental production of plays which have been brushed aside by the big business element of the modern Theatre, the Dramatic Club can, as it has in the past, render invaluable service to the cause of American Drama. But "policy for policy's sake" is a motto which has never been in keeping with high standards...