Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barney Frank '62, Special Assistant for Undergraduate Affairs at the Kennedy Institute said that anybody at the college could benefit from these sessions. On Friday he will select at random some 60 members for each meeting...
...Milgram points out, is to actually go to the cities, to "buttress raw data with observation. Measurement without perception leads to a caricature." One of his thesis advises, for example, has studied the willingness of Parisians to help stranded tourists. He and a native Frenchman spent a summer asking random passers-by for directions (in French) and comparing the frequency of helpful answers. It was higher for the Frenchman...
Another 20 cities were studied but not personally visited. They were selected at random from cities of over 100,000 people. Reporter Shapiro and the full-time assistant subscribed to each city's leading newspaper for one month and mailed questionnaires to the same groups that were interviewed in the three intensively-studied cities. Answers to the questionnaires showed that most newspapers today have a free hand in reporting criminal proceedings...
...idea is to keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to a random viewer...
...familiar surroundings of his viewer--spatially and with the objects he represents--he also attempts to remove any sign of individual or personal involvement in production. The idea is to keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to random viewer. Some of his early pieces--like the dollar bills--are made with a rubber stamp, but more re- cently he has begun to reproduce his paintings with silk screen. For Warhol, the silk screen process provides an ideal method of mass production because the artist remains almost entirely uninvolved...