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Box 16

 Container

Contains 32 Results:

Hook, Sidney, 1965-1989

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents 1965-1969, 1971, 1973-1975, 1977-1989. Correspondence with Professor Sidney Hook, Department of Philosophy at New York University. Konvitz and Hook discuss scholarly and social issues in detail. This correspondence includes discussions regarding secular humanism (November 9, 1980); discrimination against hiring Jewish professors by prestigious American colleges and universities (March 12, 1979); student activism on American campuses; black activism at Cornell (January 19, 1969); the trial...
Dates: 1965-1989

Hook, Sidney, 1960-1964

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents [1960- ] 1960-1964. Correspondence with Hook on legal issues and publications. Konvitz and Hook discuss legal issues including expatriation cases, jurisprudence, constitutional liberties, preferred and strategic freedoms, Supreme Court justices, Congressional power to override Court rulings, and the statute of limitation on the charge of conspiring to organize a Communist party. Correspondence includes scholarly discussions of Konvitz's monograph, Aspects of Liberty (February 18, 1962) and...
Dates: 1960-1964