Word: lynde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topic of technique analysis the Conference will hear from Stuart Chase and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynd, authors of wide reputation. In his "Tyranny of Words" Chase makes a thorough analysis of semantics and the meaning of economic jargon, while in their Middle town series the Lynds present a cultural cross-section of a typical American town...
...morning's session will conclude with a series of speeches, describing technique analysis. I. A. Richards and Stuart Chase will discuss semantics; and Claude Robinson, poll technique. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, co-authors of "Middletown in Transition," will make the final addresses...
Several authorities from the political and academic worlds have been invited. Among them are: Leonard Doob. professor of Psychology at Yale; Stuart Chase; I. A. Richards, head of Magdalen College at Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, authors of "Middletown in Transition"; Alan Dudley, representative of the British Broadcasting System in New York; Professor Hans Kohn from Smith and Frederick L. Schuman from Williams...
Aware that his proposal that they go in for social reform would shock fellow scientists, Dr. Lynd beat them to the punch. "The scholar-scientist," said he, "is in acute danger of being caught, in the words of one of [W. H.] Auden's poems, 'Lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down...
Professor Lynd does not pretend to have the blueprint in his own pocket, but he claims to know most of the questions and how to find the answers that would supply the blueprint's general plan. To start social scientists hunting for more meaningful answers, he proposed some "outrageous" working hypotheses. Samples...