Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning was sounded last fortnight at the annual handing-out of Oscars (TIME, April 4), but no one paid much attention. Jean Hersholt, retiring as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, told the audience: "There have been voices in the industry raised against the academy. [They] say . . . 'We don't want academy standards foisted upon us. We want to make commercial pictures unhampered by considerations of artistic excellence...
Joint council members named Marilyn Coverly '52 head of the Community Service Committee and simultaneously approved a motion to give the chairman of that committee a non-voting seat on Student Council...
Meeting for one hour a day, Monday through Friday, the course aims at speeding up the reading ability of its students without a concurrent loss of comprehension. Motion pictures, flicking groups of words on the screen at an increased rate of speed as the course progresses, aid the student to do this...
...this day of casting most roles with a tape-measure and a scale of box-office receipts, it is almost incredible to find motion pictures in which people talk and look and act just as they should. "The Little Minister" is one of them. Katherine Hepburn does the completely ingenuous ex-Gypsy girl, who wins over the young curate, with a burr in her voice and a freshness that trails heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail...
From nowhere came the seniority of human voices, scarely audible, singing "Thou shalt arise, arise from the dead." It was a magnificent entrance. No shuffing of pages or motion of any kind hinted that the Chorus was about to sing. Its entrance was only a mysterious whisper floating out into the hall, carrying the seprano solo along on top. The discipline of the Chorus was a real tribute to its director, Professor Woodworth. Adcle Addison, the seprano soloist, sang her part clearly and beautifully. And for the second time in two years, Leonard Bernstein had successfully brought Mahler's Second...