Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moviegoer may find himself staring at a luminous line of what seem to be huge purple carboys filled with a red-gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler...
Southern opposition to the change will maintain that the Senate is a continuing body, and that its old rules still apply. (There is no limitation on debate whatsoever on a motion to change Rule XXII, the rule which now provides for closure.) And certain intrinsic aspects of their argument, especially the fact that two-thirds of the Senate's membership holds over, lends logical support to this view, although it has never been directly tested. Yet in the case of these Southerners, at least, a basic opposition to civil rights legislation is he underlying rationale...
...same meeting, the Council refused to ask the Administration to offer scholarships to Hungarian refugee students, instead tabling the motion indefinitely, "until necessary information should...
...Student Council last night asked for a limited revision of House parietal hours, extension of the present Saturday night exodus point from 11 p.m. to 12 midnight. Only two of the Council members at last night's meeting opposed the motion, which was initiated by the Council Executive Committee...
...Council motion will first seek approval from the House Masters' Council, then go before the Administrative Board. Dean Bundy has promised that the change would be on the docket of the January faculty meeting if approved by the Administrative Board, according to Edward M. Abramson '57, Council President...