Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat by Allan Sapp, was played by the composer. The movements are: Larghetto, Allegro Molto, Andantino, and Allegro. This is an intensity about it that commands attention. Something is being said that is worth listening to, particularly in the faster movements, where brilliant figurations and subtle rhythms sustain a motion that has few lapses. The slower sections are less interesting, the Larghetto being the least successful of the movements. The Andantino, quiet and comparatively consonant, is sometimes a little too sweet and sometimes a bit irrelevant. On the whole, though, the Sonata in E-flat has sincerity and strength...
Following defeat of the motion, William Dean '59 moved that the officers of this year's Committee "reaffirm our previous position as stated in our subcommittee report that the Smoker be abolished by the Class of 1960's Union Committee." This motion was overwhelmingly passed, by a vote...
...appeared and took part in the voting, thereby virtually assuring defeat of the amendment before discussion began. Under the Union Committee constitution, a total of twenty votes in favor of the amendment was needed to have it adopted. The actual vote was 14 to eight in favor of the motion...
Among the 363 freshmen who attended the Smoker 162 favored the amendment, while 180 opposed it. Among the 81 who did not attend, only 23 opposed the motion...
...special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment of his guests. They threatened a motion to cut Eden's salary-a formal method of bringing a Minister's personal competence into question...