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Though it sometimes galls the town fathers, Muncie, Ind. (pop. 83,000), is famous for being ordinary. In 1924, Sociologists Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd decided that Muncie was "the typical American city" that could reveal how small-town America had developed and where it was going. The Lynds trained themselves in anthropological methods and descended on Muncie as if it were a settlement of New Guinea headhunters. The result was two classic books, Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), that shrewdly foreshadowed the next two generations of American life...
...workers, as women, and as individuals. Much of the newsreel material is unusual and exciting--footage of hunger marches and strikes in Chicago and Detroit, for example--but it is the interviews which are the truly remarkable aspect of the film. These women, who were first interviewed by Staughton Lynd in Rank and File, are exceptionally articulate about their experiences, as well as able to bring contemporary political concerns, particularly feminism, to bear on the struggles of the '30s. But what makes the film most effective and moving is the way these women are able to communicate their deep commitment...
Staughton Lynd '50, noted author and organizer, yesterday echoed Horowitz's assessment of the reason the McGovern campaign is faltering. "McGovern's big mistake is that he does not take a few issues and talk about them at length like George Wallace did," he said. "He comes across to working people as someone who has long complicated proposals he keeps changing...
...Lynd termed the McGovern candidacy "a belated political expression of the movement of the sixties--blacks, women and youth...
...success and failures of the McGovern candidacy underline which groups the movement has reached and which groups it still has to work with." Lynd explained. "If the organizing efforts of the seventies succeed, maybe ten years from now we will have a McGovern that can reach these groups...