Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That firm judgment is applied even to the subject that many consider the most distressing implication of the amendment: the drafting of women into the military. "When women take part in the military system," say the authors, "they more truly become full participants in the rights and obligations of citizenship"-even if the obligation involves combat. Physical stamina on the battlefield, they contend, is no longer as necessary in a mechanized military as it once was. Moreover, "as between brutalizing our young men and brutalizing our young women, there is little to choose." The article is similarly direct...
Black Brandeis? Apart from providing instruction and pleasant memories, how well has the institute succeeded in inculcating "Jewishness" and good citizenship? Sociologist Gene N. Levine of U.C.L.A. surveyed some 1,500 alumni and found that the Brandeis effect actually seems to grow as the graduates acquire more responsibility as family heads and in the community. The most important benefit singled out by the alumni lies in what they teach their own children, many of whom are now getting formal Jewish schooling. But there seem to be other good results. Of the married graduates, only about 2% have been divorced...
...black and white, rich and poor (subsidized by scholarships) will be accepted equally. But all will be required to study Hebrew and the humanities. Judaic culture will be stressed, for the school will emphasize, as the camp has, that cultural identity is the keystone for useful citizenship. Indeed, Bardin wants the school to be something of a Jewish Groton or Exeter, a training ground for national leaders. "To be better Americans," he likes to say, quoting Justice Brandeis, "we must first be better Jews...
...Christopher Laird, the son of an American journalist in Paris, will be stateless in five years unless he returns to the U.S. Reason: his British mother's government does not grant citizenship to the children of British mothers and foreign husbands. The French will not easily grant him citizenship. The boy was born in Switzerland, not France. And the Swiss do not recognize territorial birth...
...Harry Goldberg, head librarian at the American Library in Paris, is married to a Frenchwoman and has two French-born children. He wants his children to retain their U.S. citizenship, but sees no way it can be done. "With the kind of job I have and the sort of income," says Goldberg, "it is financially impossible for me to send my children to the U.S. for five years so they can remain American citizens...