Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Book Review, Pianist Artur Rubinstein wrote a tart review of French Novelist Andre Gide's Notes on Chopin. Sample Rubinstein pan: "... a long and pretentious music lesson, apparently written by a frustrated and embittered amateur pianist who has tried in vain to dominate the difficult keyboard for the last sixty years...
Although it is difficult to attribute last night's lack of activity to any specific cause, the letter from Dartmouth athletic director William J. McCarter to William J. Bingham '16, Director of Harvard Athletics, seems to have been borne out in fact. McCarter wrote Bingham a short while ago that he had instructed his "gestapo" to prevent any demonstrations...
...distinction between being in favor of me and being against you is a difficult one to draw. But, the world being in the delicately balanced state that it is, fine distinctions can be most important. Nothing, except appeasement, is more likely to cause a war than aimless provocation. God knows, we haven't been guilty of appeasement this time. But there is a pattern of unthinking opposition in our foreign policy which is exceedingly dangerous...
Most of the Crimson players individually played their top games so far of the season against the champions. Goalie Whoop Batachelder was busy all afternoon blocking difficult Connecticut shots. The penalty kick that got by him was hardly his fault; in soccer the goalie is almost defenseless against a direct penalty kick...
Making a picture on prejudice is a very difficult procedure. And when a love story is mixed into the formula, the possible blunders are multiplied manifold. "Pinky" does not quite escape all of these mistakes and thus misses being a great picture...