Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tugwell worked together harmoniously, though Muñoz was more conservative than New Dealer Tugwell. Tugwell could never get over the fact that Muñoz acted sometimes like a high-minded idealist, sometimes like a job-hungry political boss. Muñoz, on the other hand, found it difficult to convince Tugwell that even an idealistic politician needs enough patronage to grease the machine and win the next election. Tugwell, under fire from the sugar industry, the press and the U.S. Congress for most of is stay, resigned...
Last week, for the first time, Manhattan critics got to hear Koussy's wonder boy. For his Town Hall debut, Norman's program was by no means all apple pie: a Handel sonata, a Bach partita for unaccompanied violin, two difficult Paganini caprices. By the time he was halfway through the Handel, critics were wondering at the sureness of his phrasing and rhythmic pulse. When he had finished with the Paganinis and a blazing performance of Sarasate's tricky Zigeunerweisen, there was no question about the finish of his technique. Twenty-year-old Norman Carol was more...
...Shaw's familiar characters are included in "Getting Married"; the 'umble cockney, the stuffed-shirt army officer, the female crusaders, and others. Sidney Ball, as the greengrocer-alder man, gave a performance as polished and humorous as his h'accont Peter Davidson, who has a more difficult role as the defender of snobbery, delivered his lines with perfect force and finesse. In the role of the Bishop, John Simon also knew fully what he was about, possessed some articulate eyebrows, and except for a tendency to speak in a sing-song at times, gave a good performance. As the prayer...
...personnel. A membership that lacks initiative, interest, or time can hardly make anything but a "do-nothing" group. While griping may go on all year, this is the only time the average undergraduate has a chance to do anything about the Council. Intelligent voting, however, is more difficult here than in, for example, a national election. A candidate can't be judged by his platform for there are no "significant issues" to campaign on, and Council elections have never been the cause of much excitement anyway...
These factors all make a wise choice an unusually difficult one. The burden is on the individual voter alone...