Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DI RECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. With the cool ferocity of a mad scientist, Director Peter Brook conducts a controlled experiment in audience anxiety. Result: exciting theater that may scare the...
Various student directors also mentioned that since the executive committee of the HDC would control the purse strings, they will hesitate to experiment as much as they now can in the smaller house productions.
Joel A. Schwartz '66, director of Lowell House's Glass Menagerie, commented that the styles of acting and directing are very different in Loeb and House productions. In House productions, the director can experiment with acting ideas. The Loeb is not willing to take the same risks as the Houses...
Another of the new ventures is the processing of experimental data while the experiment is still in progress. This is being tried on a high energy physics experiment at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Each of four CEA scientists has a small computer in his laboratory a little way up Oxford St., and these are tied in with the IBM 360/50 at the Center. The small machines gather data from the experiment, and pass it on to the larger computer where it is processed. The results are instantaneously fed back to the small machines to be displayed to the scientists...
In this way, the scientists can decide quickly whether things are running smoothly, and whether the experiment should be continued. Under ordinary condition, data cannot be sifted until weeks after the experiment. After all is done, the scientists may find that something went awry at the outset, and everything afterwards...