Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incident marks one of the few victories for the English during the dismal opening months of the war, and it makes an exciting story. Unfortunately, the new English film which describes the death of the Graf Spee fritters away most of the excitement. It is an unfocused, chaotic motion picture which makes clear only that the German ship sank...
...intention-the intention of writing purely abstract music-wins out, and the images vanish. What remains is a sense of irony or of elegy. The listener's mind wanders, but a foot begins to tap, a hand to twitch in time to the music. Rhythm alone, motion for its own sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon (contest), does not denote a conflict...
...Courtly Motion. In Chicago, Judge William E. Helander wearily listened as an irate telephone subscriber sued the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. for charging $5 to change his phone from one color to another, became irked when the controversy developed into a long-winded session, finally reached into his own pocket, put a $5 bill on the desk for the telephone company, ruled the case closed...
...Council also rejected four charitable organizations suggested by members. A motion to recommend World University Service as a preferred charity was defeated...
...addition, the Council passed a motion by Carl F. Sloane '58 to expend funds presently allocated for exchange students to use within the College itself to foster better relations between foreign students and undergraduates. "We thus could better utilize the foreign students we have on campus," Sloane stated...