Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Hallucinogenic" or "psychedelic" (literally, "mind-manifesting") drugs come in three groups. The mild ones are morning-glory seeds, nutmeg and marijuana. The moderately potent ones are the mescaline of Weir Mitchell's experiment, psilocybin (derived from the Mexican Indians' "sacred mushroom"), bufotenine (a constituent of Amanita muscaria), and...
The leading American psychedelic guru-and martyr-is Timothy Leary, 45, who began to experiment with the drugs in 1960 when he was a psychologist working at Harvard's Center for Research in Personality. Harvard fired him and an associate when their project seemed to get out of hand...
Fogged-Up Experiment. After 55 minutes, and just as Gemini passed over the dark side of the earth, Cernan moved into position to prepare for his Buck Rogers-like flight in the jet-powered Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU), stowed in the equipment section on Gemini's tail end. Struggling...
Later, an alternative was proposed. Rather than building their own school, the committee would work closely with an existing school system -- probably a suburban one. They would have their own laboratory, with perhaps 100 students, in which to experiment; then their ideas would be tried out in the schools. The...
So declared a British Government White Paper that probed the country's rising crimes of violence and pointed the way for a 1964 experiment: compensation for people who suffer physical injury at the hands of wrongdoers. Headed by Sir Ronald Long, former president of the English Law Society, a...