Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guilty, and the Government had the toughest of all legal points to make-"criminal intent." It also had to prove that the picketing allegedly interfered with was in fact "peaceful." Even the Court was skeptical of Mr. Rand's announced intention of using the millwrights to dismantle his Middletown mill, observing, however: "If bluffing were illegal, I am afraid that there would be a considerable reduction in the number of Connecticut Yankees, not to mention international diplomats . . . still at large...
Public. Why a highly literate nation buys so few books is a problem that has baffled others besides publishers. In their classic studies of Middletown and Middletown in Transition, the Lynds noted that Muncie had no bookstore, no rental library except the new-book shelf at the public library; that while the circulation of library books doubled during the Depression, new books in general encountered ''creeping apathy." A possible explanation is that Americans love brightly-colored automobiles, flowers, bright clothing, scandals, fast-moving cinema, more than they like books. But the sale of novels like Gone With...
Martin D. Schwartz, '38, gives a spirited account of the career of "Middletown's Maverick Mayor." It is a good piece of contemporary history writing...
Three summers ago a group of eleven serious thinkers-among them, Robert S. Lynd (Middletown) and Margaret Mead (Sex & Temperament)-dismayed by the insecurity, the bewilderment, the crimes of the younger generation, gathered at Hanover, N. H., under the sponsorship of the General Education Board to consider what needed to be done to restore reason and balance to modern juvenile life. They had learned that to the usual perplexities of adolescents in all times there had been added since the War new worries accompanying profound changes in the structure and tempo of society...
Albert C. Howell, Fort Hancock, New Jersey--Middletown Township High School, Leonardo, New Jersey...