Word: fein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not these studies are, as research director Leonard Fein puts it, "terribly relevant to action" depends on one's optimism. The poor have been exasperated precisely because they have seen none of the action this research is terribly relevant...
This approach, however fruitful, is clearly outside the design of the Joint Center. Research firms work with multi-discipline teams toward a designated objective. The Center, in contrast, is an amorphous collection of about 60 independently-working people. As Fein puts it, "One does not expect an aggregate product out of this kind of enterprise." Most members regard the Joint Center in non-organizational, personal, functional terms. Comments one fellow, "It gives me office space, a secretary and a grant"--as well as carpets and refrigerators, a disenchanted outsider notes...
...CENTER'S "active" role has been largely passive -- instrumental rather than innovative. Says Fein, "We're a switching station--in theory, we can plug a person into a problem. As it happens, the problems put on our desk have nothing to do with the ghetto...
Unorganized sectors and low-income organizations are ignored because they do not request assistance and in any case could not pay for it. Unless recruiting of clients is begun, they will continue to be by-passed. Comments Fein, "It's unlikely that we'll initiate a program of our own--that's outside both our tradition and resources. People say, 'Well, the ghetto is different, you have to stimulate requests.' That is no longer true; You have to wait. The ghetto is gaining sophistication...
...TIME errs in its resume of the Mark Fein change-of-name case [Nov. 18] when it states that Nancy Nahon cannot remarry "until the Supreme Court acts on Fein's appeal and his conviction becomes final." Indeed, Nancy Nahon was free to remarry from the moment Fein was sentenced to life imprisonment and thus became "civilly dead," his marriage ipso facto terminated. In a civil proceeding brought by the family of the alleged victim of the murder for which Fein was convicted, Supreme Court Justice Charles Marks stated: "The declaration of civil decease and disability is clearly effective...