Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plethora of outstanding backs makes Crisler's problem of chosing four difficult, but it seems likely that Captain Constable, whose line plunges and defensive play have made him by far the best of the fullbacks, will go through most of the game. Dean Hill and Charley Carr are ready to spell him if need...
Professor Matthiessen's exposition of difficult passages is always plausible, even if one may dissent from his opinion in specific places. He is perhaps over-generous to his friends for their in- genious interpretations. It is somewhat disconcerting to come so often to acknowledgement of indebtedness for conjectures. At the final tally, it must be admitted that into his book Professor Matthiessen has distilled the essence of all previous criticism of Eliot. Sometimes the distillation is effected by contradictions, of opponents, sometimes by amplifications of small hints in other writers, but always it is undertaken by a relentless and remorseless...
...there last season Miss Cornell ran they play through a short New York season and has now put it on the road bringing it to the Shubert Monday night. It has been the good fortune of the Playgoer to see this production three times and he still finds it difficult to contain his rhapsodies within dignified limits. Despite changes in the cast and the natural wearing off which seven months could be expected to bring the presentation is as animated, as profoundly stirring, as magnificently performed as any Shakespearian production of the past ten years which is as far back...
Unfortunately the Playgoer saw Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith...
Since the Tercentenary occurs during the summer vacation, Mr. Jerome D. Greene has a difficult problem on his hands. Any such celebration demands the participation of the undergraduate body. Yet Mr. Greene does not know how to start a spontaneous movement among students to return to Cambridge for September 16, the great...