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...Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, 36, the most publicized of the Hanoi tourists, the delay was good for one last peace fling. When the BBC invited him to air his views on the war, New Leftist Lynd-to his own surprise -still had his passport, and flew off to London. There he denounced U.S. involvement in Viet Nam on a TV panel show, told a sparse peacenik rally in Trafalgar Square that American policy is "as ruthless to the truth as it is ruthless to human beings. I, for one, shall have nothing to do with that policy." Which, after...
...case in point was Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, hero of the New Left and a recent pilgrim to Hanoi, who chided the President for not doing all he could to make contact with the Viet Cong. Why, said he, it was as simple as picking up a phone and calling Prague. "I did it myself last Friday morning. Within an hour and a quarter I was speaking to a front representative who, incidentally, was fluent in English." CBS Radio decided to give it a whirl, spent 24 hours trying to contact a Viet Cong agent in Prague...
...Monday-night harangue against U.S. foreign policy was another example of the unfortunate intellectual condition of many of the "radical" members of the academic establishment. Like most participants in previous teaching -- one notable exception being Staughton Lynd -- the three speakers were unable or unwilling to articulate the real reasons for U.S. involvment in Vietnam. The poverty of their thinking was self-evident: they asserted that essentially everything relevant had been said repeatedly before; they seemed to believe that everyone understood all pertinent facts and points of view. It was as if the issue were closed and we were supposed...
Entering into retirement after almost 30 years at Columbia University, Sociologist Robert Staughton Lynd, 67, received flowers from students, expressed surprise that so many were present at his last class session. Said Lynd, who with his wife Helen in 1929 published Middletown, a classic sociological case study of U.S. community life: "I hadn't expected there would be any last class as such, but I find that there is. I had expected that I would walk out of Fayerweather Hall, down the steps, out the engine room as I always had, and on to Amsterdam Avenue and take...
...football team I met as a freshman, who complained that he was "always too tired in the evening to study." The last time I saw him was lying on the sidelines at a Harvard-Princeton game, having just been taken out with blood streaming down his face... Staughton Lynd...