Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work himself. He liked to walk but he gesticulated so wildly that children often jeered him. For the first performance of Missa Solemnis he stood in the pit. supposedly to help conduct. He was oblivious to the fact that the singers skipped the passages which seemed to them too difficult...
...names. Backstage sensation occurred last week when Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned a week before he was to have conducted the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma. Manager Longone issued a blazing statement to the effect that Papi had found it impossible to memorize the relatively difficult score. Papi railed against artistic conditions in general, implied that it was all too easy for mediocre performers to buy their way into Longone's opera...
First they turned to Webster, who defined "gentle" as "archaie" and a gentleman as a "maggot." After deciding, then, that the Harvard man is an archaic maggot, it is not difficult to solve other features of the same subject, such as the Harvard indifference and the Harvard accent...
...less free time is left in the day for self help work. The depression has at once reduced the opportunities for self help and increased the demand upon such opportunity as does exist. To keep a college a cross section of the best in American life is therefore more difficult. But the difficulties only heighten the importance of proper steps to maintain our great universities as truly national institutions. The Harvard National Scholarships, designed to attract men of the most promising qualities from every state in the Union, should enhance further Harvard's great influence in the training of each...
Getting back to the immediate issue it must be noted that Madame Nazimova plays with an intensity and gravity which compel sympathy and which make the drama as vivid to us as could possibly be expected. In the difficult role of young Alving, her son, Harry Ellerbe, performs with deep sincerity and skill. One Munson is properly earthy and youthful in the part of Regina, the servant girl and McKay Morris as Pastor Manders and Raymond O'Brien as Jacob Engstrand both create vivid personalities...