Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work efficiency cannot be correlated to noise. Dr. Alan Carpenter, Cambridge University psychologist, reports on an experiment in which a factory soundproofed some of its perforating machines and found that production rose on all of them. For the employees, apparently, it was enough that some attention was being given to...
Red China's Great Leap Forward, which began in 1958, ground to a halt only three years later in a shambles of rusting backyard iron furnaces and neglected farms. The experiment set the nation back economically a full decade; yet last week the Red Chinese seemed to be gathering...
Blonde on Blonde, taken as a whole, marks a retreat from experiment with language. The great successes it contains gain their power from hypnotic heavy rhythms against which any words would have to struggle, in a sort of "counterpoint," not from rhythmic or imagistic interest inherent in the word-phrases...
He continues in Torn Curtain to experiment with visual romanticism: Julie Andrews is chastized by Newman on an airplane and as she lowers her head sadly, the camera while dissolving to the next scene begins to blur, as if tears were clouding the lens. Suddenly Hitchcock cuts sharply to the...
Rebels & Repairmen. In defiance, Catholic Action members two weeks ago took part in a demonstration of 3,500 Madrid workers seeking higher wages. Priests and seminarians seem almost equally restive, in search of change and experiment. In San Sebastian, for example, after students for the priesthood refused to attend certain...