Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But into what role has the U.S. intellectual cast himself today? "The American intellectual often tends to say that his country has failed him . . . Perhaps [he] has failed his country, and perhaps he is more deeply missed than is at first apparent . . . [He] is failing his duty, the duty to...
"The rights of man are at stake today throughout the world . . . Absurd and dangerous as socialism and the Russian experiment may be for mankind, allies and defenders for them have been found everywhere among intellectuals. The same is not true of freedom and the American experiment. This is a very...
Opera lovers are still divided on the merits of opera in English. The purists maintain that librettos are usually poor and translations worse--the main thing, they say, is the music. Others feel that the text is also worth understanding, since after all, the composer did expect the audience to...
New York's Chancellor Robert Livingston, representing the law that preceded, underpinned and nourished the Constitution, administered the oath to the big, embarrassed man in the brown suit with eagles on its metal buttons. Then George Washington, painfully striving to strike exactly the right pitch on history's...
In one season, instead of 15 years, Dr. Wheeler got disease-resistant oat seed, which he is holding for further testing. His experiment cost only about 800 man-hours of labor. He thinks it will prove helpful in breeding many kinds of disease-resistant plants.