Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potential State Department men should have a Bachelor of Arts degree and if they are interested in the foreign service division of the State Department they face a battery of "difficult, searching examinations," Ravndal disclosed...
This makes the job of criticism particularly difficult, for, although the training and ensemble were clearly there, the sopranos were the only ones who provided any definition to the choruses. This was less true in the fugues which started in the basses. As soon as all four sections had joined in, however, only the top voice came through...
...must have been reversed, for Monday night Paul Tibbetts did the best bit of solo work with the one short phrase that makes up the bass part. No one could have any criticism, however, of Eleanor Davis' "Laudamusic," which was altogether competent. The soprano, Phyllis Curtin, had the most difficult role of all, particularly in the jumps of the "Et incarnatus est." Though she had many exquisite tones, she showed a slight unwillingness to land decisively on a note and sustain it. Tenor Summer Crockett was inaudible at times during his soles and his voles unpleasantly constrained...
...week's end, the FCC protested that Chairman Wayne Coy had already discussed the situation in a letter. And so he had, without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment now being manufactured and sold...
...from heavy "messages" and social consciousness, but last week the moviemakers were feverishly racing one another to make problem pictures. Emboldened by last season's success at denouncing anti-Semitism (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement) and examining mental illness (The Snake Pit), Hollywood was tackling a new and difficult subject: the Negro problem. Apparently no one was much worried about how it would do at the box office; the only question was which company would get its picture out first...