Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring the Cambridge City Council passed a motion submitted by Councilman Al Vellucci asking the City Manager to consider building a garage under the Cambridge Common...
...same meeting, the Council approved a motion to have its executive committee meet with the House Masters' committee to discuss extension of parietal hours in the House Common Rooms...
...present, an undergraduate may entertain a female guest in the Common Room from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each weekday afternoon. According to Andrew L. Warshaw '59, who proposed the motion, the committee will seek to extend the hours from...
...gondola to Venice's 450-year-old Scuola di San Rocco, one of Italy's famed Renaissance religious schools, for the fall's most eagerly awaited musical event. In hushed expectation, beneath a Tintoretto ceiling, they watched 76-year-old Igor Stravinsky, with a clawlike motion of his right hand, launch the orchestra into the premiere of his latest work. What followed was some of the finest-and most complex-music of Stravinsky's career...
Secondly, the austere and decisive Presidency of the Republic is more a theoretician's dream than a practical remedy. Should the "national arbiter" refuse to accept the resignation of a cabinet whenever the Premier has not been overthrown by a motion of no confidence, even though Parliament has made the Premier's life impossible, or should the President dissolve the Assembly whenever it has paralyzed the government, then a move which the President might interpret as a pure act of arbitration "designed to insure the normal functioning of the institutions" will inevitably become a hot political issue...