Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance. ... I have been called an iconoclast, and indeed I am one, in that...
Last year 40 books were permanently lost from the Reading Room as compared with the average annual loss of 350 before the turnstile went in. The problem of book control is particularly difficult in Widener because of the large numbers allowed free access to the actual shelves. Pointing out that fully 1000 persons have entry to the stack, Briggs stated that no other library in the world of comparable size has such a free system...
...film is well photographed, well acted, and the adaptation of Charles Francis Coe's story, while it retains little of the original, is certainly a superior bit of craftsmanship. But with all this it misses fire somewhere along the way; and it is difficult for the reviewer to tell just where...
Questioned on the efficacy of the Johnson Act to prevent American money from going to a defaulting debtor nation, Harris said that in this case the Act merely made it difficult for the French to issue the securities here, and that there was nothing to prevent the American investor from buying French securities in the foreign market just as he could buy francs...
...plays, and secondly one or two unknown men are invariably developed who later become valuable. He cited the statue of liberty play which was developed by a player fooling around in early practice, and the learning of new rules which the crowded practices of a short season make difficult...