Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Einstein sought precisely this: a unified field theory. Relativity, which explained the motion of large bodies in a gravitational field, has never explained the behavior of subatomic particles, which are controlled by electric forces. Yet both presumably obey the same general laws, since both are matter. Whether or not Heisenberg's "suggestion" can be proved experimentally, his goal is the classic one: "The future theory of matter will probably contain, as conceived in Plato's philosophy, only assumptions of symmetry...
...motion, made by Hastings Wyman, Jr. '61, as an amendment to the Article of the Council's Reevaluation Report concerning changes in membership and representation of the Council, was defeated twice before being passed by a two-thirds majority...
Paul E. Freehling '59, vice-president of the Council, proposed that the House captains for next year's Drive be responsible to the Council. A motion to have two chairmen of the Drive, one from the Student Council, the other from P.B.H., was defeated. "Responsibility for the Drive should rest with P.B.H., and not the Student Council," one member argued...
Accompanying a motion to dismiss treason charges against Ezra Pound had come an impassioned plea from a fellow poet. Wrote Robert Frost: "I feel authorized to speak very specially for my friends, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. None of us can bear the disgrace of letting Ezra Pound come to an end where...
Last week, his flaming red beard turned white after twelve years' confinement in a District of Columbia mental hospital, 72-year-old Poet Ezra Pound heard himself adjudged incurably insane, but harmless enough to go free. So ruling on the motion, which had the consent of the U.S. Attorney General, Judge Bolitha J. Laws of the Federal District Court in Washington dismissed the U.S. indictment voted against Pound for his pro-Fascist, anti-Semitic broadcasts in Italy on behalf of Mussolini during World War II and freed the arrogant, warped old man to spend the rest of his senescence...