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Staughton Lynd and James Weinstein were the radical celebrities in attendance. Lynd, who formerly taught at Yale, has been at the center of many of the radical turbulences of the past decade. He presently teaches at a city college in Chicago, lives in a working class black neighborhood on the city's South Side, and has spent the past several years organizing steel-workers in Gary, Ind. Lynd has been in NAM since its inception and his reputation and calm bearing were an important mediating force at the conference...
Died. Robert S. Lynd, 78, noted Columbia sociologist and coauthor, with his wife Helen, of Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classic profiles of a typical U.S. city; of heart disease; in Warren, Conn. Middletown was really Muncie, Ind., which the Lynds studied for years. Its citizens were not flattered to learn that by and large they regarded success as a matter of mere money, had no real sense of understanding for their poor, and hardly more for their own children...
...M.I.T. that the radicals were "A" students, primarily in the natural sciences, not humanities. As in the past, today's leading professors are also the more socially concerned. In the older generation, they were Einstein, Morrison, Oppenheimer, Zacharias, Today, also, they are famous names: Chomsky, Luria, Kampf, Spock, Lynd, Wald. It can be generalized that such persons are not always proud of their association with their respective institutions, but they welcome the security within hostile territory and see "no better place...
Ferber, citing figures from his forthcoming book on draft resistance during the '60's, which he is co-authoring with Staughton Lynd, said that twice as many people were indicted in 1968 as in the previous year, but only 18 per cent were convicted compared to 48 per cent...
...Viet Nam War has led them to condemn American participation in other wars; too readily, they find a link of culpability stretching from one conflict to the next. In so far as they tend to disregard history that does not serve their needs, they are antihistorical. Thus, when Staughton Lynd, in Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, combs American history to establish a tradition of radicals who shared his vision of a noncapitalist, decentralized society, he plucks out Tom Paine, Lloyd Garrison and Henry David Thoreau as fellow ideologues. This is not history but polemics...