Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...payments to mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands if the women were "cohabiting" with other men. To Alabama authorities, the men were "substitute fathers." Only last month, the court invalidated the residency prerequisite for benefits that had been demanded by 40 states and the District of Columbia. In the fall, Albert will go before the Supreme Court to plead that a recipient has the right to an individual hearing before...
Despite its impressive accomplishments and imposing title, the center has surprisingly modest resources. Besides the OEO grant, it gets some money from foundations-used mostly to pay staggering travel expenses. It is housed in a refurbished Columbia University apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and its full-time professional staff is composed of only eight young lawyers (average age 28). All could be getting good salaries on Wall Street, but they agree with Director Albert when he says: "I wanted to do something relevant." Albert, who earns $17,000 a year, went to Yale Law School, clerked...
...fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human complexities seemed irrelevant. Philosopher Herbert Marcuse brilliantly analyzes flaws in U.S. society, but he prescribes, among other things, a corrective "intolerance" from the left that, some feel, smacks of fascism run by intellectuals. "Absolutized thought," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is the real crime of the intellectuals...
James Simon Kunen is only 20, and the introduction to his new book, The Strawberry Statement (Random House; $4.95), sounds like it. The youthful don't give-a-damnedness is deceptive. Kunen is one of the student radicals who occupied the president's office at Columbia University last spring; his accounts at the time made fascinating reading in the Atlantic and New York magazines. Strawberry Statement covers much of the same ground but goes beyond Columbia. It is, in fact, the meandering but often perceptive journal of a young rebel with a sense of humor...
Kunen's reporting is no mere recital of grievances. His eye catches the wry side of things-including himself. "April 25. I get up and shave with [Columbia President] Grayson Kirk's razor, use his toothpaste, splash on his aftershave, grooving on it all. I need something morale-building like this, because my revolutionary fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest of me to wake up." Arrested and riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from...