There was a low sob, and then a man's gruff voice said accusingly: 'Useless thing!'"Suddenly, I thought I heard a slight movement in the slops pail behind me," Miss Xinran remembers.
The arrangement was initiated by a student on the 30-member Student Advisory Council to the state board, who had heard about a movement around the country to appoint students to state and local boards of education.
Mr. Sherry, the organizing genius of this festival, was also heard in a movement from Richard Rodney Bennett's Cello Sonata and in Lukas Foss's "Solo Observed," in each case with the composer at the piano.
I don't know, but I'd like to think that the idea of workers' voices' being heard is a movement that's very much needed".
The famous idea of "womanism," as coined by author Alice Walker, is an attempt to answer one bit of this exclusionary issue -- how can women of color feel comfortable and heard in a movement hugely dominated, throughout history, by white women?
I'm sure it's for reasons of iPad-capacity, but I feel short-changed not to hear a complete movement of the Mahler, or bigger chunks of the other works.
As the late sociologist Charles Tilly pointed out, nothing was more common at the turn of the 21st century than to hear a social movement rhetorically summoned up as the solution to any given issue: whether an anti-regime struggle in Zimbabwe, a debt relief campaign in Europe, a diarrhoea control effort in Bangladesh or labour struggles in Canada.
If you paid any attention to the Obama campaign in the 2008 election, you heard a lot about building a movement.
You've hopefully heard a lot about the movement around women in tech, raising awareness about the challenges that women face in the tech industry and the importance of hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.
"Don't Laugh at Me" (or dlam) was born when Yarrow — a veteran of the civil-rights, gender-equality, nucleardisarmament, peace, and Amtrak-subsidization movements — heard a country ballad of that name at the Kerrville Folk Festival, in the summer of 1999.
