Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like an Olympic hammer thrower gathering momentum for a major effort, the West last week swung slowly through the first motions of response to the Soviet challenge on Berlin...
...General Synod in its first meeting maintained its ecumenical momentum by issuing an invitation for union to the Disciples of Christ, which would make a denomination of some 4,000,000 members in 14,000 congregations. Back at once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church...
Confronted by these statistics, Negro leaders met last week in Jackson to discuss breaking off the attack. Worrying them more than arrests was the extent to which the Southern charge of "outside agitation" rang true. In what had gained momentum as a Southern Negro movement, 22 arrested Freedom Riders came from California, 13 from Illinois, others from Minnesota, Idaho, Wyoming and New Hampshire. Nevertheless, after three hours of discussion, the group voted to continue the movement. Whatever the caliber of the riders, their efforts were showing results of a sort. Jackson last week announced cancellation of a scheduled...
...style is soft, lyrical, and generally more elegant than the intense manner of the Bolshoi. The result, in the Kirov's production of Giselle, was a performance that avoided all pyrotechnics in favor of a leisurely, unified, deliberately understated approach. Where the Bolshoi version strives for brilliance and momentum, the Kirov version was poetic and withdrawn-more of a spectacle than an unfolding drama. To many observers, the performance was unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet...
...their daily radio show for one of their frequent concert tours. On the road, dressed in black jackets, red string ties and white Stetson hats, they scramble frantically through Foggy Mountain Special, Randy Lynn Rag, Polka on the Banjo, Shuckin' The Corn, giving each piece the knuckle-cracking momentum and the curiously high-pitched, pinging tone that is the mark of bluegrass style. For a dramatic finisher, Flatt may lift his nasal, sowbelly voice in an enduring country hit named Give Me Flowers While I'm Living...