Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness on the other, Welles has cut a clean if slightly winding road, has achieved a capital production...
...difficult this early in the season to compile a dope sheet. The two teams are of about even strength. Several good races are expected. In the mile Captain Alexander Northrop will again meet Stewart Whitman, the strong Dartmouth runner. In the New England Relays a week ago Northrop beat Whitman by several yards, running the distance in 4 minutes 17.6 seconds...
...this sole required course for Freshmen is to teach through discipline the how of writing. To speak is easy, even for the moron, but not to write. Expression on paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
...down to a sliding scale of personality and brains, with more being demanded of the one as the quality of the other declines. Thus the genius can come to Harvard however repulsive he is, the moron only when his charm is truly dazzling. A more democratic policy would be difficult to find, and until one is discovered the present system should be continued...
Miss Celeste Holm, the young lady of "The Women" who plays the part of the girl relegated daily to the difficult task of acting from a bath tub, told the CRIMSON "I was terribly nervous and embarrased at first, but I have gotten used to it. The only complaint I have to make with the part is that the water at time is very chilly...