Word: middletowners
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...water pollution problems has already made many of us aware that our physical environment is in danger. Yet how is it decided what are satisfactory solutions to the problems, and who are to be the decision-makers? If a group of experts decides that the East Side of Middletown would be a great site for a nuclear reactor, do the inhabitants of the area have any informed role in this decision? What is the probability of an accident in which there is emission of radioactivity to the inhabited surroundings...
...Connecticut, too, where Republican Congressman Thomas Meskill will evict a Democrat from Hartford's gilt-domed statehouse after 16 years of one-party rule. Meskill, a former mayor of New Britain, came across forcefully on television. His opponent, Representative Emilio ("Mim") Daddario, who was once mayor of Middletown, "went through the campaign like a mummy," as one politico put it. Meskill accused the Democrats of doing nothing to curb drug abuse, which a specially commissioned G.O.P. state poll called the top issue on voters' minds. He capitalized on the $200 million deficit that Connecticut faces despite a sharp...
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...
...dream a second dream. One's hope is so guarded that it dares express itself only as these tentative questions. All that can be said now is that most Americans find themselves in a kind of no man's land, between Plymouth and Merry Mount, between Middletown and Woodstock. Between too much reason and too much passion. Between the impulse to act and the impulse...