Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Telltale Tube. When videotape became economically practical a few years ago, some schools rushed to put entire courses into a can. Most have since found that students and faculty alike grow bored with so much impersonality. The common practice now is to use tape as a teaching aid-perhaps a...
Interest in materials "that are in our life today" next led Marca-Relli to experiment directly with freestanding constructions and panels of aluminum, either left in silver or covered with gaudy paint. As a rule, the rivets and nails lhat hold the work together are left exposed because they make...
Daniel J. Hayes Jr., the Mayor of Cambridge, is up for re-election to the City Council next month. Facing a tough fight, the good Mayor three weeks ago launched a verbal fusillade at the nearest vulnerable and harmless target, the city's hippie population. It may prove successful politics...
Foretaste of Freedom. The idea of hope comes from a kindly farmer, Samuel Turner, whose surname Nat assumes. When the young slave steals a book, his master sees proof that Nat is no less a man than himself. An educational experiment begins, during which the pupil absorbs the rudiments of...
Samuel Turner looked upon Nat as an experiment to destroy the myth of the Negro's inferior intellect. He exhorted Nat and gradually gave him responsibilities. Styron bases Samuel Turner on John Hartwell Cocke, who was a leading spokesman for emancipation in the Virginia legislautre of the early 1880's...