Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explain the situation by the use of rather worn-out words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...
...Chicago's camera making Bell & Howell Co., is perhaps the most fervent preacher of the thesis that "the responsibility of business goes beyond making products for a profit." Businessmen are also obliged, says Percy, to serve society. While running Bell & Howell, the world's biggest producer of motion-picture equipment (1958 sales: $59 million), cleft-chinned Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head up in the clouds with the academic people") and is the chairman...
Racing together will present some problems, since Smithie rowing form is quite different from that of the Winthrop oarsmen. The girls from Northhampton use a one-two-three-four stroke with each part a distinct motion, in contrast to the continuous Crimson stroke...
Whenever the Student Council considers one of its long range reports, a motion is made to commend the document as "intelligent and worthwhile." This parliamentary move, which does not imply acceptance of the proposals, in-variably passes unanimously. There is, however, strong reason for the feeling that even this courtesy should have been denied to the recent report on the Harvard Student Agencies...
...needs speech the shepherd stutters incomprehensibly, at which time his simple courage and sincerity is given tongue. The rest of the credit belongs to the director, who uses the camera throughout the first half of the film in a straight-on manner, getting dramatic effects from posing and from motion directly in and out or across the screen. His scenes resemble a series of carefully posed Renaissance paintings, narrating a Biblical story, for he focuses attention not by close-ups or dramatic angles, but by composition, especially in direction of faces from the crowd, suggesting, in those scenes which involve...