Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The launching of the schooner John F. Leavitt was not a sentimental return to the past. It was an experiment to see if perchance the past has a future-and will work. In a sense "that Ackerman boy," who turns out to be Edward Arthur ("Ned") Ackerman, a bearded, moderately...
Last September Obasanjo ended the nation's twelve-year-old ban on political activity, and more than 55 parties exploded into noisy life. But only five, among them Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (N.P.N.), could generate a following wide enough to qualify their presidential candidates. The freewheeling...
One of the many strange and illuminating episodes in Janet Frame's tenth novel concerns an Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the...
To account for the placebo's magic, doctors have resorted to virtually every kind of psychological and physical explanation. No luck. Drs. Jon D. Levine and Howard I. Fields and Oral Surgeon Newton C. Gordon, all of the University of California in San Francisco, may have hit upon an...
To guard against any unwitting influences on the patients or themselves, the doctors did not know which "drug" was being used in any particular case until the end of the test. In the first phase of the experiment, patients who had received placebos experienced less pain than those in the...