Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oarsman's problem is to move his craft not only with power, but in such a way that all motion other than forward and in a straight line is eliminated. it is this process that takes months of training, as well as natural ability. Any number of things can go wrong during a stroke, because every pull involves the use of the entire body in a precise sequence that must not vary if that all-important smoothness is to be maintained...
Even the recovery is no simple matter. The oars must leave the water together, a snap of the wrists must feather them, and the crewmen must slide their bodies forward and their oars back into position again with a smooth, even motion that does not check the run of the shell. If this much is accomplished successfully the whole cycle begins again, and each man must concentrate on doing exactly the same thing in the same way once more--about 300 time in a mile-and-three-quarters race, or about 700 times in the classic four-mile Yale race...
Munch's baton technique is perhaps his most unique characteristic. One moment he may be beating time with the sparest possible motion, left hand by his side, and the next he literally whips up the orchestra with violent arm movements. He conducts not only with his arms but with his entire body. During the performance of a choral work here recently, he was conducting four separate elements of the orchestra with different parts of his body, all the while singing the French words along with the chorus and carefully exaggerating his lip movements of assist the singers in pronunciation...
...country whose citizens have not been lately offered a chance to see "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "The Birth of a Nation," and other film classics. Although the audiences may be told that they are gathered together for the purpose of studying the new art form of the motion picture, there may be no more than a handful of really serious students of the cinema in each audience. The larger percentage of subscribers are probably people who have recently been introduced to the treasury of foreign films and are consequently more and more discontented with the neighborhood theater's fare...
What the HLU has failed to do, and what the University has hardly contemplated--offering a course in some phase of the motion-picture--two Winthrop House tutors did this past year. R. J. Dorius and S. F. Johnson offered House members an opportunity to subscribe to a film series on the American Comedy. The program they selected included Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, and others. There were six evenings of films and five of discussions. The cost was two dollars for the series, and each subscriber could bring one guest. The discussions on the cinema were...