Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source gave two instances of this disregard for scientific procedure yesterday the fact that experimental subjects were not selected art random, and may even have included persons who had undergone psychiatric treatment; and the fact that group sessions or house 'psilocybin parties' were held in which even the group leader took the drug, thereby preventing objective observation of its effects...
...find intelligible and intelligent ways of talking about interesting political and social issues. This isn't easy, because most of the people who know about current problems like "The Great Atlantic Community" (the general subject of Number One) are either great men in government or random-sized men in universities, or both at once; and the former are so busy and responsible they tend toward fatuous effusions, the latter so cautiously rigorous they lose themselves in the impenetrable thickets of scholarspeak. Steering between them must be for a magazine, something comparable to trying to write medieval history: editors must look...
...most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That Exploded, come daringly close to utter babble, according to reports. In these volumes Hasan's dictation is augmented with a "fold-in" technique: pages of the first draft (or of a newspaper, Shakespeare, or whatnot) are taken at random, folded in half lengthwise, and stuck together. This juxtaposition of fragments, says Burroughs, produces a continuous interweaving of flashbacks and flashforwards...
...COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS (175 pp.)-Paul Goodman-Random House...
DRAWING THE LINE (III pp.)-Paul Goodman-Random House...