Word: lynd
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Staughton Lynd '50, noted author and organizer, yesterday echoed Horowitz's assessment of the reason the McGovern campaign is faltering. "McGovern's big mistake is that he does not take a few issues and talk about them at length like George Wallace did," he said. "He comes across to working people as someone who has long complicated proposals he keeps changing...
...Lynd termed the McGovern candidacy "a belated political expression of the movement of the sixties--blacks, women and youth...
...success and failures of the McGovern candidacy underline which groups the movement has reached and which groups it still has to work with." Lynd explained. "If the organizing efforts of the seventies succeed, maybe ten years from now we will have a McGovern that can reach these groups...
Staughton Lynd and James Weinstein were the radical celebrities in attendance. Lynd, who formerly taught at Yale, has been at the center of many of the radical turbulences of the past decade. He presently teaches at a city college in Chicago, lives in a working class black neighborhood on the city's South Side, and has spent the past several years organizing steel-workers in Gary, Ind. Lynd has been in NAM since its inception and his reputation and calm bearing were an important mediating force at the conference...
Died. Robert S. Lynd, 78, noted Columbia sociologist and coauthor, with his wife Helen, of Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classic profiles of a typical U.S. city; of heart disease; in Warren, Conn. Middletown was really Muncie, Ind., which the Lynds studied for years. Its citizens were not flattered to learn that by and large they regarded success as a matter of mere money, had no real sense of understanding for their poor, and hardly more for their own children...