Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Faculty to approve a proposed half-course in the international language known as Esperanto. He explained at great length the advantages of a supra-national system of communication and clinched his point--or so he thought--by estimating that any one could learn Esperanto in three weeks. His motion, however, was defeated almost unanimously. "It's not worth devoting a half-course to anything which can be learned in three weeks," one of his colleagues observed at the time...
...Naked and the Dead, Mailer created an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean; similarly in The Deer Park, he has created another contrived locale--Desert D'Or, two hundred miles from Hollywood. This is a resort for the stars, directors, and other notables of the motion picture industry, and here are located the clubs, bars, and beds where they spend their days and nights. The lurid events which take place in Desert D'Or are credible only if you can accept Mailer's views on the primacy...
Prior to considering the motion, Council representatives had conferred with members of the administration, the Department of Athletics, the Financial Aid Office, and members of the student body...
...fact, the two Genevas taken together vastly augmented the West's strength, and thereby the chances of peace. True, the ball had not been advanced at Geneva II. But the West was not engaged in that kind of football game with the Communists. The motion that counted most lay inside the West, which could be beaten only by its own confusion or disunity...
...Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month of 1942 she sat through 52 motion pictures...