Word: lynd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.I.T. that the radicals were "A" students, primarily in the natural sciences, not humanities. As in the past, today's leading professors are also the more socially concerned. In the older generation, they were Einstein, Morrison, Oppenheimer, Zacharias, Today, also, they are famous names: Chomsky, Luria, Kampf, Spock, Lynd, Wald. It can be generalized that such persons are not always proud of their association with their respective institutions, but they welcome the security within hostile territory and see "no better place...
Ferber, citing figures from his forthcoming book on draft resistance during the '60's, which he is co-authoring with Staughton Lynd, said that twice as many people were indicted in 1968 as in the previous year, but only 18 per cent were convicted compared to 48 per cent...
...accomplishments of the American heritage but its massive dislocations and conflicts. Though forming a diffuse movement rather than a well-defined school, they have a growing influence on the study of history; at last December's meeting of the American Historical Association, their candidate for president, Staughton Lynd, the ex-Yale professor who now works with Radical Organizer Saul Alinsky, received nearly one-third of the vote...
...Viet Nam War has led them to condemn American participation in other wars; too readily, they find a link of culpability stretching from one conflict to the next. In so far as they tend to disregard history that does not serve their needs, they are antihistorical. Thus, when Staughton Lynd, in Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, combs American history to establish a tradition of radicals who shared his vision of a noncapitalist, decentralized society, he plucks out Tom Paine, Lloyd Garrison and Henry David Thoreau as fellow ideologues. This is not history but polemics...