Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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THE British astronomer Sir William Herschel performed a curious little experiment some 170 years ago. After bending a beam of sunlight through a prism, he found that a thermometer heated up most if it was placed just beyond the red end of the spectrum. Herschel concluded that the mysterious heat...
THE ACTIONS of the mutineers reflected this belief in local control. After electing a Provisional Revolutionary Committee and imprisoning the prominent loyal Bolsheviks that remained in the area, they adopted their own rations, set their own rules, and began to enact an already agreed-upon political program: the creation of...
WHO, then, was responsible for Kronstadt? Avrich never attempts to solve the riddle, but it seems that the beginning of an answer is at hand. Those forces which attempted to set back Soviet Russia, to retard her economic and political progress, to make her life and her people's lives...
Harris interviewers talked to 820 students, a cross-section from 50 colleges. Of that group, an overwhelming 89% believe that public pressure can gradually alter government policies. Astonishingly, 39% said they personally planned to work for peace candidates in the congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns this fall. Even if only...
Although Home is in no danger of losing his own memories, he nevertheless takes the directive to revise the experiment as an assault on his identity. He ignores instructions, and is banished from Government service. Shortly thereafter, Black Bear escapes and defects to Russia. Home is drawn magnetically toward him...