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...order to formulate a workable set of values in the modern world, the American people must first reconcile a "hodgepodge" of contradictions, uncertainties, and inequalities in their own concepts of democracy, according to Robert Lynd, professor of Sociology at Columbia...
Speaking in the final Law School Forum of the term at a crowded Sanders Theatre on Friday night, Lynd deplored the contradiction which exists between the political democracy and the economic capitalism of the U. S. middle class. As a result of the comparatively favorable conditions and easy life in this country during the last fifty years, Lynd said, "we Americans present an extreme case of arrested development in ideological matters...
Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48, Council president, said that George Keegan '44, of Leverett; James Broderick '46, of Adams; and Staughton C. Lynd '50, of Straus Hall, will compose the Library Committee...
Everybody in Lynd, Minn. (pop. 218) wanted to see the Lynd High boys play in the state basketball finals at Minneapolis. But some had to stay home to do the chores. A. H. Roloff, the postmaster, took over the telephone exchange from Ole Larson, the town barber. At 9:30 one night last week, Roloff got good news to relay to the 18 other stay-at-homes: Lynd had won the first game...
BLACK METROPOLIS-St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton-Harcourt, Brace $5). In the same sort of cool, clinical case history in which Robert and Helen Lynd dissected the U.S. small town in Middletown, Anthropologist Drake and Sociologist Cayton have card-indexed the manners, mores and living conditions of the U.S. Negro in a northern city. Because of the tragic, potentially explosive material with which it deals, Black Metropolis is more engrossing, and may be more important, than the Lynds' book. Educators, politicians, ordinary thoughtful citizens- and perhaps even a few Southern Senators -may find in this well-organized, well...