Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This month Dr. Shoemaker and his friends launched a new movement-the "Pittsburgh Experiment." It is designed as a saturation campaign against "nonconductors" in Pittsburgh's business world, to be carried out through small task forces. Explains Shoemaker: "Today . . . the small group is both a sign and an instigator...
Apart from Dr. Shoemaker, the experiment's prime mover is Admiral Ben Moreell, board chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., longtime seven-day-a-week Christian and one of those responsible for bringing Dr. Sam from Manhattan's fashionable Calvary Church. Layman Moreell, who will serve as chairman...
Reaction was quick to come. Resort Owner Irving Fidelman, of nearby South Haven, declared that he would test the legality of Hendricks' experiment, probably on the grounds that using school classrooms for religious instruction is an unauthorized use of tax-supported public property: "Children meet in the school as...
...saxophone would take over, add a few ideas of its own, and give it to the bass, or maybe back to the piano. Eventually they would all work back to the bare theme and the piece would end. This method alone is not enough to justify the term experimental. But the group at Adams was definitely experimenting. For one thing M.C. Tom Wilson constantly changed the makeup of the group. He shuttled in three different pianists and two drummers-on the conventional drum set-and used his three saxophones solo, duet, and trio. It was a changing group, and since...
The new source will relieve the deficit between anticipated expenses and the financial backing already received. The Ford Foundation's fund for the Advancement of education has contributed $150,000 for the experiment and the suburban Boston public schools involved have agreed to pay the trainees $1,350 a semester...