Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of this year, the project will continue on at least two levels. A random sample of 100 members of the Class of 1963 will undergo additional testing; they will be paid for voluntary work this year. As a second program, Dr. Bidwell is interviewing 70 students--20 seniors and juniors, 50 sophomores and freshmen--on an intensive basis...
John Cage: Indeterminacy (Music by David Tudor; Folkways, 2 LPs). In a search for a "new aspect of form," Composer Cage has glued 90 spasmodically rhythmic anecdotes (on such random subjects as a mushroom exhibition in Paris, a bridge-playing composer in "the loony bin") to the piano and electronic music of Fellow-Composer Tudor. The result is new, all right, and even engaging in spots, but for the most part it will remind the first listeners of a dyspeptic after dinner speaker talking through an electrical storm into a TV set with a faulty tube...
...MANSION (436 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
Harvard Students for Rockefeller sent the questionnaires at random to 410 Faculty members and all House Masters...
Selected at random, the hapless four were the first of "several hundreds" whom the Finance Ministry plans to expose to publicity's unwelcome glare. But shrewd Antoine Pinay knew his compatriots too well to rely on shame alone: under new Finance Ministry regulations, police mounted guard over the homes of the four artless dodgers, prevented them from going to work, and withdrew their drivers' licenses. "They can appeal," said a Finance Ministry spokesman. "But we are refusing all settlement out of court. And they are all liable to at least six months in prison, plus fine, plus back...