Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amateurism abounds in Dunster House. Master Alvin Pappenheimer often gives it his financial support; a number of House members have taken advantage of the chance to experiment.
¶ SEVERING GAZZELONI, 47, the grand master of the difficult contemporary repertory, this week begins a monthlong concert tour that will take him from Copenhagen to Tripoli to Minneapolis. Fidgety and ferret-bright, Gazzeloni started noodling around with atonal music about 20 years ago, got fascinated when he found that...
Last April the Times editorialized: "President Johnson's offer of 'unconditional discussions' was a splendid move on the diplomatic/political front, in the effort to achieve a peaceful solution of the quarrel." Sulzberger dissented: "It is fair to ask why Mr. Johnson chose this moment seemingly to alter...
A different obstacle turned up in another big trimester experiment. A Ford Foundation study of the financial jam at the University of Pittsburgh recently blamed Pitt's trimester system as mainly responsible for doubling operational costs per student. While Pitt retained 70% of its faculty to handle the summer...
Before 1953, as far as the Canadian government was concerned, the dominion's 12,000 Eskimos ranked about with caribou for concern and polar bears for utility. Strewn across millions of square miles of permafrost, they were a depleted and dying culture, helplessly locked in old patterns, too weak...