Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The first show was finally given in Christ Church auditorium, and the next was presented in a common room of the Harvard Union, in the round, an approach that has not been used lately in Cambridge. The experiment has proved successful and we hope that more plays in this form...
Civilization, and the apotheosis of abstraction. When words become their own meaning, when Angry Young Men and hipsters plunge into the night and the academicians experiment with style--ask me why there is no literature.
Credit for opening up the field to modern artists belongs to Jean Verrier,* who as inspector general of historic monuments made a bold effort to end rigidly traditional restoration. But the man who most energetically carried on the crusade was a Dominican monk, Father Marie-Alain Couturier (TIME, June 20...
Taking a leave from Caltech, Beadle went to Paris to work with Ephrussi. Their first joint experiment was the delicate feat of transplanting an eye from one minuscule fruit-fly larva to another. After many attempts, an eye took hold and lived, and the two young scientists spent a whole...
At the start of the experiment, Beadle and Tatum resolved to make at least 1,000 tries before giving up. Such perseverence was not necessary. On the 299th try they found an ailing spore that needed only vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) to make it grow lustily. When it had mated...