Word: motional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Motion Picture Academy in years past has displayed a distaste for political controversy; half a decade ago, a streaker was more acceptable than an Oscar winner with the temerity to rail against the war. But as a headline in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner put it last week...
...began to reconsider its position. At its April 22 meeting in the Loeb Drama Center, it voted, 251 to 158, to dispense with precedent and adopt an only slightly modified version of Afro's demands. The decision provoked a firestorm of criticism; although the Faculty sponsors of the Afro motion called it a "friendly amendment" to the Rosovsky proposals, Rosovsky angrily disagreed. He resigned his seat on the Standing Committee while comparing the Faculty vote to the British capitulation to the Nazis in Munich. Other national observes also called the vote a capitulation, but Pusey--at long last realizing...
City Councilor David Wylie said yesterday the city would be interested in leasing the University building during the construction of the new library. "My motion called for the construction people to build a 'little gem' of a library," Wylie said...
...admittedly difficult task. But as The Washington Post wrote in its April 1 editorial on Three Mile Island, such a reckoning of the "ethics of risk" must be the ultimate destination of the energy journey. If we are lucky. Three Mile Island will have set the process in motion...
...This is the first day since we've been up North that my slider has felt good. The cold weather gives it no break. But today I was relaxed. I wasn't rushing my motion, and it was working for me," said Alewisos, who hurled back-to-back shutouts in Florida last month...