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...MIDDLETOWN...
...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 survey will be unveiled on TV this...
...Hearts and Minds, a 1975 film examining the origins and consequences of the American involvement in Viet Nam. The Selling of the Pentagon won an Emmy, Hearts and Minds an Oscar, but both were also criticized as simplistic, distorted and unfair to some of the people they depicted. Middletown is likely to become just as controversial. Indeed, Xerox, which provided $600,000 of the program's $3 million budget, has already disassociated itself, disturbed by the sometimes foul language. Larry Grossman, the president of PBS, has denounced one 4-min. 7-sec. scene in which a teen...
...Middletown...
Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., was one of the first to react to the bad news. A private university known for its remarkably openhanded scholarship program and diverse student body, Wesleyan announced last week that it could no longer continue "aid-blind" admissions, accepting any qualified student regardless of ability to pay. Last year Wesleyan spent $2.7 million of its own funds on scholarships; with the proposed federal budget cuts that figure would nearly double. As a result, this spring some low-income applicants, who in better times would have received letters of acceptance, may be rejected in favor...