Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of the conservative General Zionists, B-G carried his vote 57 to 45. But the two leftist parties in his coalition voted against the motion. Lacking constitutional power to sack members of his own Cabinet, but denouncing what he called a "breach of faith" by the four leftist ministers, B-G stormed out of a Cabinet session roaring: "This is the last time I sit with them." At week's end he resigned, as he had six times before in the past eleven years. By law, ministers are then supposed to stay on as a caretaker...
...contended," wrote Justice Potter Stewart, "that the State's action was justified because the motion picture attractively portrays a relationship which is contrary to the moral standards, the religious precepts and the legal code of its citizenry. The argument misconceives what it is that the Constitution protects. Its guarantee is not confined to the expression of ideas that are conventional or shared by a majority ... In the realm of ideas it protects expression which is eloquent no less than that which is unconvincing...
...Belcher's newly appointed successor. The gist: Earl K. Long is sane; he should be released from the mental hospital. Attorney General Jack Gremillion stood up: "Your Honor, there is no one now with authority to hold Earl K. Long at the hospital. The state joins in a motion to discontinue." Judge Jones leaned forward. "Since there is no opposition, the motion [to free the Governor] is granted and the suit is dismissed." The hearing had lasted five minutes...
...loran, the new Atlantis surveys proved that it is not a wide, steady stream, but a jet that whips from side to side over hundreds of miles and sometimes curls into eddies. It may run fast or slow or backward, and only the general sum of its motion carries warm water to Europe...
...worst thing about Goldwyn's Porgy, though, is its cinematic monotony. The film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak...