Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's narrow defeat of a Supreme Soviet motion to debate an end to one-party rule showed just how tenuous the authority of the Soviet Communist Party now is. Striking workers might bring about not only a collapse of power in Moscow but the snapping of links to the outlying republics. A wave of secessionism might then follow, with the probability of murderous ethnic strife in its wake...
Amidst the well-directed "hell which passes before us" are Shepard's messages, one of which seems to be a concern about the effects of the motion picture industry on the consciousness of the public. Early in the first act, Wheeler indicates his awareness that movies have become the most dominant aspect of culture and have taken control of people's minds...
...while she concedes that change is slow in coming at Harvard, Pitkin--after a year's worth of activism on security issues--is nonetheless optimistic that the demands of the rally will someday be met. "It takes a long time for a big organization like Harvard to get in motion," she says...
Neither could anyone else. A motion introduced by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci to table the proposal until next week passed unanimously, allowing the council to wait for a more detailed proposal from the company before taking action...
...motion as phrased might very well take into account a very large number of units," Duehay said in an interview. He and Councillor David E. Sullivan called the order too broad because it would apply to an unlimited number of units...