Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance: Premier Laval was left free to continue his difficult "Honest Broker" activities between Fascist Italy and Parliamentary Britain...
...wool pictures. Most elaborate and expensive of those exhibited last week was a portrait of Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., standing with their family in front of their summer home at Seal Harbor, Me. It took three years of intermittent stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them. It must be loosely woven, but strong, and the warp and woof must be even. The wools are not so hard. I used to get mine from an old man down in Greenwich Village...
...imported singers are so sure of their Wagner that they needed little rehearsing. But the San Franciscans who sing the smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much...
...quickly made friends with people who became his sponsors, labored tirelessly over a disjointed body of players who badly needed work. From its feeble beginnings the orchestra has grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
...comparison with Hemingway's own fiction Green Hills of Africa must be put down as a successful experiment. With its swift narrative and its human conflicts it is as carefully organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance" of game, suddenly encountered after trying periods of inactivity, inspires