Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adapted from Author Vance Hoyt's Malibu, with the title changed lest cinemaddicts mistake it for a story about Hollywood, Sequoia was extraordinarily difficult to film. Gato and Malibu are natives of Sequoia National Park near Fresno. There Director Chester Franklin. Producer John Considine Jr. and a crew of 40 worked almost two years, made 62 miles of film before they had the 7.500 feet they needed. Most outdoor pictures require a dozen or so different types of lenses. Photographer Chester Lyons used 47 in Sequoia. Pack trains carried film from location to a base camp daily whence...
...doubt of Dean Donham's wish to foster a sympathetic attitude between government and business, he dispelled it with his comment on the new course: "It is impossible to extemporize a first-class Civil Service. Twice in 18 years ... we have struggled with social catastrophes made more difficult by the shifting requirements of men perforce hastily gathered together, without training for the purpose, overwhelmed, overworked, and often made arrogant by the magnitude of jobs undertaken all at once. Too frequently these men are incompetent to handle the problems they face; yet their decisions constantly upset business...
...Author is a descendant of Rabbi Gershom Seixas, who came to America in 1710 and helped incorporate Columbia College, a nephew of Maud Nathan, founder of The Consumers' League, and of Annie Nathan Meyer, founder of Barnard College. But as a Jew, Robert Nathan found things difficult at Exeter and at Harvard. His ancestry supposedly kept him from being president of the Harvard Monthly. As a poet he found the "good bourgeois Jews themselves" against him because he was "a bad business risk." Fear of what the "good bourgeois Jews" might say has made Mr. Nathan sensitive about...
...different aspects of the celebration and advise the members on the handling of their part in the ceremonies. The Society is scheduled to play an important part in the 1936 celebration commemorating Harvard's founding, and hopes to be able to cooperate with University officials in handling the many difficult arrangements, and to assist by gathering interesting historical data...
...tutee. Moreover, it would be in accord with University Hall's professed recognition of the fact that the average student is approaching maturity. For there is evident throughout the Dean's Report an attitude that both students and tutors are more parts of a whole than individuals. It is difficult to believe that a large number of tutors are unable to resist their tutees' pleas for private coaching for examinations, whether general or otherwise, and are seriously disturbed by methods employed by others...