Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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[TIME, Dec. 30], I was piqued into trying it with mine. The experiment went well until the reading of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County (which county, incidentally, we Westerners seem unable to pronounce).* At that point, the wildest of bacchanalian orgies ensued. At length, after recovering from...
Though some of the girls at Cuautla admit that their chief motive for joining was the prospect of adventure, most of them have found real satisfaction in the Friends' experiment in grassroots international relations. Said 18-year-old Gay Bauman of New York last week: "So many tourists . . . have...
When a British prison commissioner, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to...
Next day, Gandhi renewed his spiritual campaign against India's bitter communal feuding. At 7:35 on the morning of Jan. 2, clasping a long bamboo pole in his right hand and flanked by four companions, Gandhi set out on a walking tour of Bengal's Noakhali district...
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto (Woody Herman Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia, 2 sides). On first hearing, a hackle-raiser, whether the listener is a lover of classics or a lover of jazz; but after the third or fourth playing it becomes an engaging experiment in classical dissonances impeccably played on jazz...