Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History, said he believes the "larger issue" should be further clarified before the Faculty voted. He proposed tabling the ROTC motion while a Faculty council subcommittee examined it further, but the motion was defeated...
Caldwell raises her arms and begins to conduct. A hundred arms are set in rhythmic motion and music fills the hall. The roar grows louder as the chorus begins singing St. John's Passion. Rick snaps pictures rapidly. He switches to his long lens for closeups of Caldwell. From the balcony her facial features are indistinguishable--only the reflection of the chandelier lights in her glasses can be discerned as she bobs her head up and down in time to her deliberate hand motions...
...Bach's incessant running up and down scales turned the first motif of "1-2-3-4-5-6," holding up each finger in fast succession, into breathless slapstick. Choreographer Black added other motifs one by one--slow-motion rolling, runner's ready position, broad glissades--and bumped one into the next in various combinations. Relying on the humor of incongruity, she popped the fast-counting fingers into the most inappropriate moments...
...pays little attention to corporate earnings or the course of the economy. Using millions of figures dating back more than a century, he follows the lines that stock prices and trading volume trace on charts. He bolsters his chart readings with studies in physics (for the laws of motion), music (for rhythm) and crowd psychology. He has evolved his own gauges of the market, including the "speed-resistance line" (a measure of how far and fast prices have risen or fallen) and the "senti-meter" (a ratio of the prices of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones average...
...times a day at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus has settled in for its spring visit, a British-born performer named Elvin Bale approaches the device, unlimbers its 40-ft. arms and sets both himself and the great wheel into motion. Thus begins what Ringling Impresario Irvin Feld says is "one of the most fantastic thrill acts the show has ever...