Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Through The Ages Jehovah" is an experiment in repetition; Jenkins' ensemble plays a familiar, Gershwin-like melody many times with improvised embellishments and slight changes in inflection. Pianist Anthony Davis and percussionist Andrew Cyrille prove a precise, if a bit complacent, rhythm section, neither one stepping out to make a...
...explosions in both the top and bottom. Each chamber is sealed, and pilot-light burners are lowered to start cooking the rock. Kerogen released from the shale settles to the bottom of the chamber and is piped out. Occidental engineers have already "fired" six giant chambers at an experimental facility at Logan's Wash-with mixed results. In an experiment last July, the roof of the chamber collapsed. In others, the yield of shale oil was not as high as expected...
American managers pride themselves on their pragmatism. But will they be pragmatic enough to experiment with ideologically explosive concepts like "industrial democracy?"
Kucinich is the local product who best qualifies Cleveland for national attention. He is the most firmly progressive of America's big-city mayors, and this marks him as a leading target for media ridicule. Next Tuesday he will be doing what he has practiced throughout his tenure: fighting for...
The following spring "The Experiment" in coed residences began, with 50 women from each of the Radcliffe Houses (North, South and East) exchanging rooms with 50 Harvard men. In the fall of 1970, when co-residential living began at the Quad and in five River Houses, Molony recalls walking into...