Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep...
Probably the most difficult and at the same time the most lucid of present-day poets is Laura Riding. Manhattan-born, Laura Riding at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War was settled in Mallorca, where, with Robert Graves, she published books of the Seizin Press. Forced to leave the island at a few hours' notice, she is now living in Brittany until Mallorca returns to its normal ways. An indefatigable worker, she has written nine books of poetry, six of criticism, a novel. This month her Collected Poems (Random House, $4) was published...
...exercising such faculties, has such faculties. The person who reads a poem for the right reasons is asking the poet to help him to accentuate these faculties, and to provide him with an occasion for exercising them." In spite of this illuminating introduction, readers will still find her poems difficult. The main difficulty for U. S. readers will probably be that she writes in a language in which every word carries its fullest literate meaning. For this reason, language that would seem clear in Shakespeare or Mother Goose may seem obscure in Laura Riding...
...years I clung to Professor Lowes's coat-tails, and for the last fifteen I have been sitting at his feet. It is difficult to speak directly of the loss involved in his retirement, but it may be said that he has quickened generations of students and in his writings he has bridged the gap between scholarship and criticism. He has made criticism learned and scholarship exciting. If any literary scholar of our time has raised a monument more lasting than bronze--and 'a stately pleasure-dome'--Professor Lowes has done...
...violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead whales bore harpoon marks, the whalers had no comeback...