Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion attempts to replace the present voting system by a "one-for-one" system, which would give the voter one vote for each open position. By the present method, a student rates his choices by number, which hinders and limits the counting process...
...quorum, two thirds of the membership, is necessary to pass either of the two main items on the agenda, which are constitutional amendments. One of the two, a motion to change the present proportional representation balloting system, also requires sanction by two-thirds of the College in a referendum...
...second motion would create two NSA representatives, who would be voting members of the Council, and be chosen by an all school election...
...road and given it an indisputably original twist by using a U. S. road map for most of the plot, and a Mexican map for the rest of it. Everything happens while the characters are physically on the move and nothing every happens when they stop. Outside of pure motion, there is no development of anything. Whenever some danger of a little drama through which personal relationships or just plain personalities might be explored develops, Kerouac drops the situation...
Maillol's lithographs of nudes are completely unassuming figure studies, making no attempt at emotion. Nevertheless, they are--another irony--by far the most expressive. Maillol, who admired Egyptian sculpture enormously, used to speak of finding the most significant motion in the greatest stillness. "Immobility of the body," as he himself put it, "does not mean immobility of the flesh...