Word: lynde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only rhetoric, but such rhetoric can have corrosive and hypnotic powers of its own. At its core is not merely hate but a vision of power. During an antiwar demonstration in Washington, New Left Historian Staughton Lynd had an almost mystical vision of mob rule: "It seemed that the great mass of people would simply flow on through and over the marble building, that had some been shot or arrested, nothing could have stopped that crowd from taking possession of its Government. Perhaps next time we should keep going...
...scholars, some good and some poor, who take materials apart in search of an organic historical pattern leading up to and including the generally accepted "American crisis" of our time. Among these are famous and controversial men such as William A. Williams, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Aptheker, and Staughton Lynd. As far as these four are concerned, the American polity has undergone two revolutions--1776 and 1861--two counter-revolutions--1789 and 1877--and subsequently, has pretty much raced along a path of increased industrialization, increased routinization, and increased, or at least not lessened, social inequity and cultural depravity...
...Texas. This was clearly a case of political considerations influencing an academic appointment, as M.I.T.'s excuse that it had no field of economics and history was patently false. Nevertheless no students protested (in fact, they would have probably protested if Rostow had been appointed). If it were Staughton Lynd who was being discriminated against for political reasons students would have protested this infringement of academic freedom. This is hypocrisy only if you believe that people should defend abstract principle qua abstract principle...
INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN RADICALISM, by Staughton Lynd. A historical handbook for the armchair revolutionary by one of the leading scholars of the New Left...
...yogis and the commissars of the New Left, he falls back on a semimystical vision of the world as town meeting, proposing an ideal society that stresses religion rather than politics. With his transcendental interpretation of history, his uncompromising rectitude, and his wobbly ambivalence in the face of actuality, Lynd seems like a 19th century Brook Farm Utopian who has wandered nobly but by mistake into the 20th century...