Word: kunen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Such detachment in an angry young man is unusual enough to give special weight to Kunen's more predictable indictments of society. "Leave me and my friends alone, bastards," he warns. "You're up against something here because we're young and won't bend and we're against you. We need good schools and houses for people to live in and it could be done and we're going to make this country do it. I don't get mad easily but I'm mad now and I'm going...
...freshman 155-pound title went to Art Campbell for a TKO victory over Mark Kunen. Kunen never had a chance against his heavier, experienced opponent, but he held on gamely until the referee stopped the action late in the first round
...thrust that is needed to free a heavy rocket from the earth's gravitation. Engines designed for use after a vehicle has been lofted into orbit need only a little thrust, but they must exert it for a long time, using only a whiff of fuel. Alfred E. Kunen, director of Republic's Plasma Propulsion Laboratory, explained that the plasma pinch engine will get its electricity from solar cells and store it temporarily in a battery. When thrust is needed, the engine can work continuously for months or years, consuming only a small amount of nitrogen...