Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult for an American to reconcile Oxford's almost unlimited academic freedom with her motherly moral restraints. It would seem the young Englishman grows quickly in mind but leaves his morals for others to develop. (On the other hand I've seen some corking good wall scalers!) How much of this proctoral jurisdiction serves to continue a rich tradition and how much of it to encourage a stubborn hypocrisy is, I suppose, a matter of whether you prefer mutton or frankfurters...
...dramatization of "It Can't Happen Here" is not a finished production, but it retains enough of the novel's emotional ferocity to be well worth seeing. There can be no question that the adaption of the novel to a dramatic vehicle constituted a difficult task and that it was not completely successful. Further, it is noticeable that production difficulties are less easily overcome by a federal theatre group than by a private organization...
...hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there is a presidential election on November third, and November third is only five days...
...American Legion was founded ostensibly to foster patriotism, and to continue to serve the country in peace as in war. Since the war, the Legion has demanded a bonus for their war services, based on what logic it is difficult to see. They forced payment of that bonus years before it was due. Now they are pressing on to demand pensions for every member, and for their families, no matter when required. Beside these mammoth treasury raids, unhesitatingly made in times of severe economic distress, the petty steals in disability pensions which produced such paradoxes as football players drawing total...
...story is by Fictionist-Sports Writer Paul Gallico, whose years on the sports desk of the New York Daily News doubtless make him a world authority on difficult newspaper temperaments...