Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This investigation was later extended in order to compare the effects of real-life and film-mediated or televised aggressive models on children's behavior. Children in the human film-aggression group viewed a movie showing the same adults who had served as models in the earlier experiment portraying the...
Flickering Flame. Birth and Death, as the film is titled, this week provided a powerful start for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's second and possibly last season. A $12,5 million, two-year experiment of the Ford Foundation, PBL was founded to prove that public TV, if adequately financed...
Despite bright expectations that PBL could avoid bickering and office politics, the lab became embroiled in the same sort of power struggles so notorious at the commercial networks. Executive Director Westin, a 39-year-old former CBS producer, was the hapless mediator. His staff members were fractious because they did...
But for all of its obvious value, there was something rather peculiar about Coed Week. I suppose the strangeness was unavoidable in such a laboratory-experiment stuation. I found myself as I walked through a building or across a yard smiling left and right, stopping and marvelling at just exactly...
Unmistakably, the goal of the U.F.T. was to cripple the decentralization experiment, which it fears might lead to a dissolution of its bargaining power by giving local communities control of hiring and firing. Ironically, the strike seems to have furthered the cause of decentralization. Thousands of previously uninvolved city parents...