Word: experimentalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home, 10 to 5." For pint-sized (4 ft. 10 in.) Experimentalist Kiesler, whose radical departures have landed him more commissions for models than buildings, the World House was the first opportunity in decades to see his continuous-flowing forms grow to lifesize. Inside the entrance, an aluminum-covered ceiling slopes upward toward a two-story interior patio with a white marble island surrounded by a jet-fed black glass pool. A glass-sided stairway leading to the second floor is supported at pinpoints on a white Alabama marble cantilever protruding from a structural steel pillar that swells and tapers...
David Tudor and John Cage, two leading exponents of the "experimentalist" trend in American music, will give a concert at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...University awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 1939, with the citation: "An experimentalist who transforms stubborn matter by high pressure; a logician who alters physical theory by acute analysis...
...only assist at the birth of ideas, shaping values as they come along to meet the needs of the present. He may take hints from the past, but the only real test of an ideal is how it can be expected to work out in the future. Thus, for Experimentalist Dewey and his followers, action became a sort of giant laboratory, where values could be run through a series of streamlined tests. "The method we term 'scientific,' " said he, "forms for the modern man . . . the sole dependable means for disclosing the realities of existence...
Action to Action. The important thing about learning, Experimentalist Kilpatrick insisted, was not the subject but the child. He saw no point in mere textbook education which, fed to passive students, "reduced man to mind, and mind largely to memory." A child learns by living, said he; and therefore education must be based on action, every action leading to better action: "Thinking, unless it works, isn't worth anything...