Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred University, Samuel B. Gould, president of the State University of New York, said the "disquieting element" in student activism is that "it is not often enough accompanied by the presentation of practical solutions to the state of affairs being protested." At Smith, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that "when issues are complex and ambiguous, as in Viet Nam, mass demonstrations run the risk of lowering the rationality of discussion...
Inspired by wild discrepancies in reports of earlier UFO sightings, Science Students Terry Warren, James Gould and Douglas Eardley decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas-probably helium. From the bottom of the balloons they suspended metal rods, each with fins and a railroad flare fastened to its lower...
Though a Caltech employee saw the final launching and informed the sheriff, it was too late to prevent the headline-making results. "We succeeded beyond our wildest hopes," said Gould. "We suckered everybody. We could have made the balloons do fantastic things-like zip across the sky-but we preferred to keep the experiment simple...
BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK 1 (3 LPs; Columbia). Glenn Gould is now halfway through Bach's magnificent "exercises," performing the first 24 preludes and fugues on the piano. There are times when Gould hams it up, and there are certainly too many of his infamous hums, but he makes the pieces spring to life with bold overall conceptions, marvelous technique and vaulting lines...
...Charles found it impossible to ignore his heritage. He had made a fortune developing the Kansas City stockyards and investing in real estate, street railways, fertilizer and packing plants, and he had reigned six years as president of the Union Pacific (Jay Gould deposed him in a power struggle in 1890). Bored with business, he turned to intellectual pursuits. Eventually, like a proper Adams, he became a historian of some note, president of the American Historical Association, an overseer of Harvard. By the time he died in 1915 at the age of 79, he had become such a complete victim...