Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next Step. Smiling happily at the success of this experiment, Dr. Hall proceeded to the next. Some of his brown mice, still untested, had unusual ancestry. They were descended from fertilized ova transplanted from a female brown mouse into the womb of a black one. All the "genes" in their...
Whiter than History? Actually, the film is a visual opera, with all of opera's proper disregard of prose-level reality. As such, it is an extraordinarily bold experiment, fascinating and beautiful to look at. But Eisenstein has denied himself so much that is native to cinema and has...
Many who come to Anapolis are on their way to the new Government Colonia Agricola Nacional and its embryonic town of Ceres. The Colonia, one of seven set up by Dictator Vargas in 1941, and the most successful, is an experiment in agrarian socialism. To poor men it holds out...
Ballet Society, a new nonprofit company which had gone underground to experiment (for members only, who paid from $15 to $50 a season to look on), put on three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by...
His Utopian experiment consisted chiefly in following the Wordsworthian principles of "plain living and high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese...