Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry V, the main Shakespeare work on this year's program, afforded an opportunity to experiment. Canadian-born Actor Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French...
The Manlius School, a boys' college-preparatory school near Syracuse, N.Y., four years ago started an annual mathematics tournament, open to high-school students in upstate New York. Thought behind this project is to extol mental prowess in the same spirit that usually prevails on the athletic fields. Students...
In Cologne, Germany, an autocratic, absent-minded composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen has fun supplying the state-run West German Radio with electronic music. Many of the sounds he makes resemble those of the Barrons, but his attitude is at the opposite esthetic pole. A conservatory pupil first, then an electronic...
When the Southern Education Reporting Service started a journalistic experiment two years ago to tell all the desegregation news straight down the middle, it was damned by extremists of both sides. But the experiment proved a success: the service's monthly Southern School News has walked the tightrope of...
Britain's two major farm organizations were so pleased with their guaranteed prices and markets that they raised no objections to the A.E.C.'s right to snoop and expel. The A.E.C. can expropriate farm land from a small farm and join it to a larger farm on the...