Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On state agricultural problems, he reminds California farmers that they produce 25% of the U.S.'s table food, offer 33% of the state's jobs, represent 70% of the state's cash transactions. Yet, he remarks, "Farmers are being forced to conduct a social-welfare experiment for...
As commercial television hopelessly wrestles again with mediocrity in entertainment, educational TV is at least trying harder. Latest evidence is a new prime-time adult science series, Experiment, now running on 16 major non commercial channels.
Experiment was developed by Don Herbert, 49, producer and star of the children's science program Mr. Wizard.
That show ran on NBC for 14 years and won a number of prestigious awards be fore NBC capriciously dumped it. It turns out now that the kids' loss is the grownups' gain. The opening Experiment and the seven others to follow are modest masterpieces that even the...
Simultaneously and without sentimentality, Herbert, who narrates as well as produces Experiment, reveals the whole man - musician, engaging classroom instructor, collector of old Chaplin films, and gifted home moviemaker.