Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week she kept her promise. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels which belong with the best of contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively...
...joker is that Hungary would be backed by the Third Reich. The possibility loomed last week for a few short hours that Soviet Russia might come to Rumania's aid, but the last thing King Carol wants is Soviet soldiers on his soil. He might find it difficult to get them out afterward...
...Government is perfectly free to refuse even a discussion of these problems as so far it has done with its too-often reiterated and perhaps categoric 'Nevers.' But will it not regret if the breach presently dividing the two nations becomes so wide that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to heal...
...15th Century cocky composers sometimes showed off by writing compositions that could be played backwards as well as forwards. These compositions, called cancrizans or "crab style" (because of a mistaken idea that crabs walk backwards) were as difficult to construct as crossword puzzles. But they were not worth listening...
That the situation is serious is obvious: overloading of tutorial staffs, lowered intellectual standards, strained budgets, and charges that Harvard "starves" a particular branch of study, result. To offer a solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores...