Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS MOST POIGNANT about the Project was one of its original goals, a goal that remained central--providing relief to unemployed performers. Many were aging vaudevillians; the Depression and the emergence of the motion picture industry had killed vaudeville, and its performers were stranded. As one performer described the Theatre Project to a Writers Project interviewer, "I don't know what would have happened without it. After all what can a man of fifty...
Clearly this social flux consisted more of motion than of movement. The women's liberation movement may turn out to be profoundly epochal, but neither it nor any other trend gripped or provoked the nation as did, say, the now quiescent civil rights crusade. Surely no single label or slogan could possibly embrace such a diffuse drama, and efforts to encapsulate these times in a single-shot insight have been quite unconvincing...
...talks with Dobrynin last week, Vance flew to London, where he addressed the Royal Institute of International Affairs on what he called "the emerging SALT II agreement." This week he is visiting Egypt and Israel in a last-minute attempt to jolt their stalled peace talks back into motion. He will report to the President in Washington, then head for his meeting with Gromyko in Geneva before returning again to the U.S. capital...
...Entebbe, The Pope's Journey to the United States). No sooner had a Bantam senior editor learned of the murderous assault on Ryan and his party, via a 2 a.m. phone call from Bantam's publicity representative in San Francisco, than the wheels were set in motion. By Monday, Bantam's Editor in Chief Marc Jaffe was on the phone with San Francisco Chronicle Managing Editor William German, even then beginning to piece together the eyewitness story described by Chronicle Correspondent Ron Javers, who was wounded at the scene...
Harvard's motion to dismiss the case was denied, and the suit is now in the "discovery" stage, in which evidence is collected...