Word: opprobrium
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...drawbacks, it is far less dangerous than heroin. They reject the notion that dependency is undesirable. Dr. Barry Ramer, whose Center for Special Problems has just won a $121,000 grant from the city of San Francisco, equates methadone with insulin, which some diabetics take daily without suffering social opprobrium. Herman Lancaster of the state-sponsored Illinois Drug Abuse Program stresses that methadone enables the addict "to do what he could never do before." Dr. Robert DuPont, head of the Washington, D.C., Narcotics Treatment Administration, calls total and unassisted abstinence, which is recommended by many methadone critics, a "phony alternative...
KELMAN has his eye on other SDS bodies as well. The only radical leader to escape the general opprobrium is Michael Kazin. "He was strikingly handsome," Kelman says in introducing Kazin. Readers may puzzle over the number of times Kelman stresses Kazin's "good looks" in the book...
Loud Roars of Opprobrium concluded the Mentor's Counsel and the Group quickly voted to follow after him to where the promised mounts were stabled...
Loud Roars of Opprobrium concluded the Mentor's Speech. Turning to face up at the Citadel, he lowered his Standard to begin the Wingy Charge...
Says the report: "The extreme opprobrium that our society has attached to homosexual behavior has done more social harm than good, and goes beyond what is necessary for the maintenance of public order and human decency. Homosexuality presents a major problem for our society largely because of the amount of injustice and suffering entailed in it, not only for the homosexual but also for those concerned about...