Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty, at its first meeting since February, will consider a motion today calling for the establishment of a Faculty Council on East Asian Studies which would supervise a new A.B. program in that field and coordinate East Asian studies at Harvard...
...None has had greater significance than those he will make next week in Los Angeles. There, the white-haired and rather fleshy 82-year-old will cross the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to accept a special Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." As the old comedian concludes his valedictory and ambles to the wings, an epoch will fade out. The ambivalent skirmish between Chaplin and the United States can be ended at last...
...naive love of technology which is probably the purest well-spring of science fiction, though now it often appears strangely mixed. Just a spoonful of complexity gets into "The Man Who Learned Loving." Theodore Sturgeon's account of a man who deserves commendation not for the perpetual motion machine which he has invented but for the relentless self-sacrificing maneuvering through which he assures that it is used for the good of all mankind...
...distances are so great and loose and easy, there is so much to see from the car window, baking, gleaming out there, that the driving, the perpetual motion, takes over. Get a good cigar, flip on the air conditioner and the FM radio, shut out the world with your windows and zip on down the freeway lulled by Carmen McRae, by the air whistling to get out the window crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless...
Everyone here seems to have this deadly fascination with motion, whizzing around on bicycles, dune buggies, motorcycles, skis, boats, surfboards, waves, cars. The town has more cars per capita than any other place, more freeway miles and car dealers. Its dealers, even retired ones like Ralph Williams, are celebrities. "People here will go without food for their cars," a West Hollywood Jaguar repairman told me. It used to be said that some people did that for their children...