Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ransom is one of the foremost members of the group of poets who founded the Fugitive magazine, a publication which flourished in Nashville, Tenn., from 1922 to 1925. The movement was a reaction against the excess intellectualism of Northern poets. As one critic has noted, the Tennessee poets "reaffirmed for the Southern poets the right to sing of nature, harmony, metaphysics." They sought, the critic notes, a "dreamy sentimentalism and provincial elegy." This movement began among students at the University of Tennessee, and included, along with Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Merrill Moore, Sidney Metron Hirsch, and--familiar...
During the question period that followed, Kirk stated that although Egypt is not the sole center of Arab nationalism, it directs the movement and profits from the "facade of universalism" which conceals local self-interest...
Aside from vocal matters, he has to be a master of gesture and movement. Walking is particularly important here; I am tempted to say that you can tell more about a person from his walk than from any other thing except his speech. An instructive case in point is Alec Guinness' performance in Bridge on the River Kwai. Guinness must have employed at least two dozen different walks for this role, and he was thereby able to convey even without a word, the subtlest changes of condition or attitude...
...further inflation and continuing price rises may discourage future consumer buying. Compared with June 1957, when 42% were fatalistically resigned to a perpetual price spiral, only 28% of U.S. consumers now expect prices of household goods and clothing to keep on going up; the remaining 72% look for mixed movement, no change or a general decline. Thus price becomes an increasingly important factor. Concludes the survey: "Consumer desires and needs for durable goods, homes and additions or repairs to homes are [hardly diminished]. The decline in consumer spending is due to postponement of discretionary expenditures rather than to saturation...
...alert to the promising future of underdeveloped countries, the guaranty program can do much to help those nations get the capital they need and to protect the investors who are helping to substitute private investment for public aid. But if it is to be a real shield for forward movement, the program needs a greater awareness of its function by both U.S. businessmen and the members of Congress...