Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...review of the motion picture Blackboard Jungle, I am intrigued by the pronouncement that "Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years [March 21]". While I am considerably short of 30 years in high-school service, I have inhaled a great deal of that insidious white stuff which produces "the secret decay." (Laymen may not know that some times after a concussion of erasers on the blackboard, the familiar mushroom cloud of dust rises high in the air and results in heavy fallout many feet from the point...
Another day, when he moved a motion for a public monument to his old Liberal friend, World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Churchill spoke with such feeling that the House had the impression that he was applying the valediction to himself. "Pity and compassion lent [him] their powerful wings. He knew the terror with which old age threatened the toiler . . . He stood, when at his zenith, without a rival...
...with N.Y.U.), is much more of an intellectual exercise. "While trying to protect yourself, you are testing, trying your opponent. You are investigating his patterns, his attitudes, his favorite actions. You have a limited time in which to decipher him. It's like a chess game in rapid motion...
...dancers themselves tried very hard and a decent part of the time managed the very much task of uniting motion with the prose which came sometimes from narrator-director Harold Scott and sometimes from a chorus. Inexperience came naturally in several times to divorce the action from the story, but it was rare enough not to matter...
Although the motion passed without a debate, Rep. Charles A. Iannello (D) from Boston promised after the vote that he would try "to put teeth" into the bill if the Court declares that the essential features of the legislation would be constitutional...