Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week in Dallas, the 18,150 delegates to the Southern Baptists' annual meeting overwhelmingly rejected increased power for women in the denomination's leadership. The key decision of the delegates was a defeat of a motion that would have required the denomination to include at least 20% women in its organizational makeup. Opponents of the measure cited the pitfalls of quotas, but this hardly seemed the issue when the delegates went even further, and voted to table a resolution that called for an end to discrimination against women in secular employment...
...read the transcripts; now see the movie. So goes the current parlor game, "Watergate, Soon to Be Made into a Major Motion Picture." Most casting choices tend to be inspired but impractical - President Nixon played by the shade of a Captain Queeg-ish Humphrey Bogart (they were all "dishloyal officersh"), or Jeb Magruder impersonated by the late Montgomery Clift. Properly, the ground rules should exclude all but those actors available for two months of work, plus a renewable option for the TV-series spinoff. Let those who are without guilt stone the first cast...
Tetley is determined to link modern techniques with classical form -hence the title Gemini. The ballet's main fault lies in the intensity with which Tetley states his position. Neither dancers nor audience have time to catch their breath for reflection on the extremities of motion and emotion to which they are constantly pushed. And Tetley is too new to the company to take fullest advantage of the dancers' contrasting personalities-for example, Haydée's Latin passion with Cuoco's sinuous California cool...
...stream of protests over housing prompted the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life to reconsider the assignment system. On a motion by Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, the advisory group voted in December to abolish all House quotas for concentration, school background, and rank in class. Masters also lost their time-honored right to pick some residents of their Houses...
Zeph Stewart defended his motion on the grounds that it merely offered women "freedom of choice" in selecting their accommodations. Radcliffe residents, however, rose up in arms, and held protest meetings against the elimination of the only College housing without a male majority...