Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the balanced sanity and insight of TIME'S survey of American painting [Dec. 24], the majority of prizewinners in the Chicago and Corcoran exhibits [Jan. 21] seem like the feckless choices of a madman. James Brooks's R-1953, which resembles nothing more than an imperfectly stained...
But if Ross's attempt at Strindberg was only a noble experiment, a flock of similar experiments were doing nobly in converted nightclubs and church basements all around Manhattan. This season, off-Broadway theater can look its uptown big brother squarely in the eye.
Chinese Lunch. The chilled cobalt experiment proved extremely difficult, but by last fortnight Dr. Wu reported her results. The electrons were not shooting off equally in both directions. This looked bad for parity, and spirits rose high in the anti-parity camp.
The Columbia cyclotron (called affectionately a "pie factory") is arranged to generate a beam of pi mesons, which turn quickly into mu mesons. Using mu mesons to test parity had often been discussed, but had seemed too difficult. This time Dr. Lederman and Associate Richard L. Garwin had a new...
"You're In!" The mesons did no such thing. They shot out twice as many electrons in one direction. When a small current was passed through the coil the mesons turned around and shot their electrons in the other direction. This proved that mesons can be mirror twins (like...