Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headlong as a paper chase, Schoolhouse on the Lot is just as full of false scents and wasted motion. Playwrights Fields & Chodorov have used about 33 of the famed 36 original plots, scrambled them into doodlebug farce, peppered them with gags. Underneath the roughhousing is a healthy contempt for the method in Hollywood's madness, a keen eye for skulduggery. But compared with a Once in a Lifetime or a Boy Meets Girl, Schoolhouse on the Lot is too loud, too loopy, too larruping...
...roots of modern physics, the authors found il necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later. When Newton formulated...
Relativity. Astronomical observations of double stars revolving around each other indicate that the velocity of light is not affected by the motion of its source. Einstein made this a fundamental assumption of Relativity-that the velocity of light in empty space is always the same, whatever the motion of the source or that of an observer. A corollary of this was that there could be no such thing as absolute time, that two events which are simultaneous to one observer may not be simultaneous to another...
...absolute time is abandoned, every body moving relative to another must have its own time specification as well as length, breadth, and thickness. Thus time becomes a fourth dimension added to the three dimensions of space. The consequences of the theory, when worked out mathematically, are that absolute motion, absolute mass and absolute dimensions must also be shelved. When a body is in motion relative to an observer, he would see (if he had instruments fine enough) that its length in the direction of motion is shortened, that its mass is increased. The increased mass must be due to energy...
...preachers have often been criticized because they devise spectacular, worldly ways of getting apathetic Christians into church. British parsons now sometimes go them one better. Motion pictures are packing British churches on Sunday nights, largely because of the relatively good films produced by the Religious Film Society, backed by rich Methodist Miller Joseph Rank (TIME, Feb. 14). By last week, 200 British churches had been equipped for sound pictures, new installations were being made at the rate of one or two a day. To familiar objections against such "pill-sugaring," an executive of the Film Society, Rev. Stanley M. Edwards...