Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The bizarre call for water is part of an experiment being carried on by Chemistry Professor Willard F. Libby. He hopes to develop an atomic time scale for water samples similar to the radioactive carbon 14 calendar, which measures the age of prehistoric relics (TIME, June 2).
As an "experiment," Pundit Walter Lippmann stayed away from the convention for the first time in as long as he can remember, relying on a borrowed TV set for his coverage. But Lippmann, like many another TV-viewer, also leaned heavily on the work of hundreds of newspaper reporters. Throughout...
The idea of universality pushes out most strongly in Cox's abstractions. He paints what he calls "basics," e.g., canvases combining such forms as rocks and eggs, which offer contrast in texture. ("Eggs," he says, "have a softness and smoothness and at the same time a nervous feeling.") He...
Medical superintendent at Riverside is Dr. Jerome L. Leon, a towering (6 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.) onetime C.C.N.Y. football tackle, who frankly admits that nobody knows whether the experiment is going to succeed or not. But everything foreseeable is being done to make it succeed. "In the first place...
Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia is a virtuoso who makes each of his books an experiment in a different literary manner. In The Woman of Rome, it was gritty realism; in The Conformist, political allegory; in Conjugal Love, a fine-threaded analysis of human passion. An earlier Moravia novel now published...