Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quarrels Over Responsibility. With the approval of the city's board of education and the help of a $59,000 planning grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was set up last summer. Local parents elected a committee to run the eight schools in the project...
This month, Rhody McCoy, administrator of the project, attempted to transfer 13 teachers and six supervisors out of the schools. His only explanation for this action was that the educators had tried to "sabotage" the experiment and had "lost the confidence of the community." School Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan at...
FACED with these probably insoluable problems, Rudolph must sometimes wonder why he came to Cambridge from Baltimore some six years ago. Since then, he's tinkered endlessly with various traffic patterns in a Canute-like struggle against the cars. One such experiment was his new Harvard Square traffic pattern which...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is...
He took his Ph.D. degree at Harvard with Carroll Williams, professor of Biology. When asked about Kafatos, Williams said "Fotis is in a group by himself. I've never seen anyone with such a green thumb for identifying the critical phenomenon and devising the necessary experiment." Williams relates how one...