Word: lynde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtful durability as Fannie Hurst's We Are Ten and Robert Nathan's Enchanted Voyage. But with works of the stature of Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee, James's Andrew Jackson, Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, Robert & Helen Lynd's Middle town in Transition, Sandburg's The People, Yes, Mencken's The American Language, the White House Library received a few books last week that seemed likely to outlive its present inhabitants...
Three summers ago a group of eleven serious thinkers-among them, Robert S. Lynd (Middletown) and Margaret Mead (Sex & Temperament)-dismayed by the insecurity, the bewilderment, the crimes of the younger generation, gathered at Hanover, N. H., under the sponsorship of the General Education Board to consider what needed to be done to restore reason and balance to modern juvenile life. They had learned that to the usual perplexities of adolescents in all times there had been added since the War new worries accompanying profound changes in the structure and tempo of society...
...Lynd in his Middletown in Transition [TIME, April 19] may think that the Balls are an economic royalistic octopus squeezing the life out of us poor devils in Muncie, but it is hard to convince Muncieites of this fact...
...intelligent people of Muncie (and we have a few) are still amazed at how Lynd could be accurate when dealing with statistics such as the percent of high school graduates today as compared with 30 years ago and so utterly unscientific and biased when dealing with personalities and economic philosophy. From the latter standpoint there is a general consensus of opinion that he found what he expected to find, that we have a cross section of Lynd's mind rather than a true picture of the people of this community...
...BOOK of HOURS-Donald Culross Peattie-Putnam ($2.50). Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic." Illustrations by Lynd Ward...