Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People are more terrified of LSD than of anything else in the world This terror is a phenomenon which social scientists would do well to study. Meanwhile, we who would be told about LSD must rely on books written by terrified people. The most apolitical and therefore potent threat waved...
Centuries shuttled back and forth last week on NBC. Italian truck drivers be came Roman legionnaires; butchers were metamorphosed Into gladiators (one burly swordsman was nearly reduced to tears When he got a scratched ear); a woman switched from modern bourgeois matron to sadistic Messalina. These time-machine gambols took...
In last week's regular Sunday slot "Experiment" also scored high with Pinter People, a show in which Playwright Harold Pinter talked engagingly about his work. Critics have combed Pinter's plays in search of symbols and hidden meanings. Pinter thinks they are wasting their time. "I don...
Pinter also eavesdrops. His "Experiment" sketches, shown in animation, were ideal eavesdropping situations: a foreman reporting to his jovial boss; a bus queue enlivened by a quarrel; an earnest job applicant getting the works. Thus summarized the sketches sound unexciting, but they completely engaged the viewers' attention, and were...
Money Game. Edwards, 42, is head of the University of Michigan's Engineering Psychology Laboratory. Since last July, he has been operating an ingenious gambling experiment called "Stakes & Odds" at the Four Queens Hotel in Las Vegas. With the full encouragement of the house and the Nevada State Gaming...