Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plight of the ghetto, Lindsay also gives some hope to the city's despairing -and departing -middle class and its huge reservoir of talent. His interest and participation in cultural activities and his just plain hijinks -capering on the Manhattan Bridge with a film crew to encourage motion-picture production in the city or playing touch football in Central Park -are reviving the city's ability to enjoy itself. If his energy and courage hold out, Lindsay may just manage to make New York City more livable as well as more governable...
Adapted from the 1951 Broadway hit, The Fourposter, the musical retains the play's central prop, though here the bed is on a turntable and sometimes spins around like a carrousel. As Director Gower Champion realized, every bit of added motion is essential, since the plot is mired in a clicheland where the journey through life is so predictable that it seems exactly like going nowhere. It begins with Wedding-Night Jitters. Yes, the new groom is frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their...
Director John Hirsch has imposed a death-march pace on the drama, though he has a gift for composing some tableaux that unfold with the dreamy slow-motion grace of an underwater ballet. Smoldering with anger and frustration, Gloria Foster commands the stage but cannot control her part. Her vocal range tends to be loud, louder, loudest, and she has yet to learn that the seat of passion is not the larynx...
...last meeting this month, the Faculty voted not to consider a resolution that condemned the 2-S deferments as "unjust." Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who introduced the motion to table the anti-2-S resolution, argued that the Faculty should not consider "abstract" questions...
Although Monro made it clear that he is willing to offer a resolution, he repeatedly said that he would only do it in the absence of another motion. "If this thing shows up in any other form, I probably won't do it," he declared. His main objective, he said, was to insure some sort of discussion or debate...