Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money was used to counsel welfare-rights organizations, to prepare research for neighborhood legal-aid centers and to initiate court action on behalf of the poor. As it happens, much of the litigation subsidized by the Federal Government has been used to bring successful suits against local, state and federal authorities for slipshod and unconstitutional handling of poverty and welfare programs...
...Wolfe wreaks havoc with the old, comfortable under/over thirty dichotomy. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test--published simultaneously last summer with The Pump House Gang, his second collection of essays--established Wolfe as the Boswell of acid beside Ken Kesey's Doctor Johnson. The book's ecstatic, exploding prose reads like the litany of a convert. Yet while he sees Kesey's Merry Pranksters as the hippie prototypes of an increasing search for religious experience in America, Wolfe himself felt no personality change during his contact with them. Unlike Mailer, Wolfe appears to have preserved the distinction between participant...
...like Pusey believe it is the modern thing to be doing--is tearing the university apart. Barzun writes: "Knowledge is power an its possessor owes the public a prompt application, or at least diffusion through the training of others. It thus comes about that the School of Social Work aids the poor, the School of Architecture redesigns the slum, the School of Business advises the small tradesman, the School of Dentistry runs a free clinic, the School of Law gives legal aid, and the undergraduate college supplies volunteers to hospitals, recreation centers, and remedial schools...
...East Cambridge Planning Team, a neighborhood organization formed to aid the development of the community, approved a statement on April 21 disassociating itself from Harvard SDS and stating that "we are not in sympathy with their cause...
...that hearing, Robert Kennedy derided Calkins' request for school aid as "pouring money into the same old system when there's no sign it works." Calkins retorted that the city schools have failed only because they have been continually shortchanged...