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Poor Muncie, Ind. A small city in that mythical region called the heartland, it has been probed, inspected and all but dissected for more than half a century, labeled by teams of social scientists as typically American. The husband-and-wife team of Robert and Helen Lynd led off in 1929 with their famous book Middletown: A Study in American Culture, following up eight years later with Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. A research team of university scholars is about to release the first part of a third look, conducted in the mid-'70s. Still another...
DIED. Helen Merrell Lynd, 85, pioneering scholar and co-author of two sociological classics, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937); in Warren, Ohio. Lynd and her late husband Robert melded anthropological and psychological insights to research the daily lives of the residents of Muncie, Ind., the first such major study of a U.S. community...
...American, penchant for Government intervention, tolerance of Communist totalitarianism and its fatuous call for revolution. Intellectually at any rate, they soon had their adversaries on the run; many of the most voluble leftists of the period have faded from the polemical scene: Noam Chomsky, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Staughton Lynd, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Kopkind ("Morality, like politics, starts at the barrel of a gun"). The Commentary crowd, meanwhile, carries on the battle with undiminished gusto...
...century ago, Muncie was an isolated agricultural town, the former headquarters of the Northern Ku Klux Klan. By the time the Lynds arrived in 1924, it was industrialized and dominated by the Ball family, who built a thriving fruit-jar industry as well as the local hospital, Ball State University and most of the rest of town. Its population of 36,000-50,000 by the time of the second Lynd report-was 90% white and 95% Protestant, and struggling to cope with layoffs, a new trend toward secularization, women's voting and flapper ideas about...
...Lynds predicted that secularization and a generation gap would come to Muncie slowly, while citizens clung to the old values. That is just about what happened, according to the new researchers. Says Warren Vander Hill, a historian at Ball State who has worked on many post-Lynd Muncie studies: "First you learn to roll with the punches and accept things that were unacceptable, then you hold onto those very basic ideas about life with an even tighter grip...