Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly voted 39 to 6 that the Russian ban was "likely to impair the friendly relations among nations," and should be withdrawn. Poland's Jan Drohojowski, who voted against the motion, thought the Assembly had yielded to U.S. and Chilean "political acrobatics." The Assembly has been misled, he snapped, "by a feeling of sympathy for the young people, now that spring is here...
...executive board decided to recommend that the fund, which now rests in a Washington bank, be used "to assist in the support of one or more Asiatic student whose studies at Harvard are intended as preparation for future constructive service in the regeneration of Asia." If the motion is approved by the members the money will be given next year to one or two Asiatic students who need...
Olympia responded by catching Palestinian in the last few jumps, and won by a short neck. Said Hedley Woodhouse, Palestinian's jockey: "I should have won it, but my horse slipped about five strides from the finish." Motion pictures of the race indicated that Palestinian had tried to jump a puddle. Capot, the second choice (at 5 to 1) for the Derby and apparently no mudder, was six lengths back in third place...
...Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite her wounds, and a fine-tuned example of physical fitness. Unlike the stiff, staring images of earlier cultures, she looked alive and in motion...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...