Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kazan-Schulberg motion picture A Face in the Crowd: your review is stupid...
...Judiciary Committee blandly concluded that Hodja Boyar "spoke in a moment of religious ecstasy and should be forgiven," and it seemed foregone that the entire Assembly would next agree. But when the motion reached the floor, it ran into eloquent and unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished...
...studio overlooking the Gare Montparnasse railroad tracks, likened it to "one of those hermit's caves where lions used to go to have thorns taken out of their paws." U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder saw the bright rectangles on Mondrian's walls, went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after Mondrian's death (in Manhattan, at 72), his recognition is reaching new heights. Paris, which had never seen a one-man Mondrian show, this spring had two. The first authoritative biography, by Michel Seuphor (Piet Mondrian; Abrams; $17.50), has just...
...Texas, traces Porter's roller-coaster life and attempts to explain the contradictions of his personality. He was born in Greensboro, N.C., a year after the Civil War began, the son of a country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried by the boy's "hacking cough." At just about every crisis in his life, Will was able to find...
...Discovery II. Each sank to a predetermined depth and sent back ultrasonic beeps that allowed them to be followed by submarine-detecting apparatus. When set to sink only a few thousand feet, the floats drifted north with the Gulf Stream, but between 4,500 and 6,000 ft. their motion practically stopped. Deeper down they drifted southward, at as much as one-third mile per hour. With the counter Gulf Stream proved to be real, the oceanographers can apply their theories with stepped-up confidence to other parts of the ocean depths...