Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unclear whether the vote was against the idea or the hasty wording of the resolution. Thomas Shields '69 introduced an alternate proposal that the HUC reconvene as soon as a prepared statement could be drawn up and that motion passed by the same 12-4 margin...
...produces a rich victim of Nazi terror who, it turns out, may not be dead after all. The story deals in breathless comings and goings across the Central Europe of today and yesterday-yesterday in this case being 1939, just before Hitler's "final solution" was set in motion. Davidson detours into the painfully recollected and infinitely poignant shifts of law and finance that were used to raise the money necessary for getting Jews out of Germany...
...entire place is quiet for the first time while the powerful PA system, modulated to carry over the expected room noise at any convention, is blasting him over a silent audience. The effect is overpowering. The process: a desert rose blooming in a slow-motion Walt Disney movie. The product: the force of a natural phenomenon, electronically produced...
...system does present one major question: Will the film moguls tamper with the artistic integrity of their product to avoid a classification that will shut out the under-16 market? Next year will tell. At least the producer will have the option of appealing to a board headed by Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti. Mr. Valenti's credentials for making moral judgements aren't bad; he left the Johnson Administration two and a half years...
AFTER nearly 40 years of heated discussion, the motion picture industry has devised what it considers a sane system of limited movie censorship. Beginning November 1, seven people (including a female child psychologist) will give one of four ratings to every movie released in this country: "G" (suitable for general audiences), "M" (mature audiences), "R" (restricted--persons under 16 admitted only with parent or guardan), or "X" (persons under 16 not admitted). Most theatre owners are expected to enforce the ratings at the box office...