Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guests of honor were the Prime Ministers (or their deputies) of seven Dominions* of the British Commonwealth come to London to consult-but not to decide. On many issues they would have found decision difficult. Those issues were deliberately put aside, or touched upon lightly...
Perhaps the most difficult problem of a committee head is to decide what issues his group will investigate during the year. Usually, problems can be divided into two classifications--the more immediate "front-page" grievances and long-range problems of policy that may require as much as several year's work...
...will now be very difficult for any reader of "Life" or anyone else who got the Word, to view "Macbeth" with seriousness or even impartiality...
...Behrman's translation of "Amphitryon 38." The HDC's president has described the play as "gaggy and sexy," and it is all that. It is also first-class high comedy. And it is a play that has two terrific star parts--and by terrific I mean long and difficult, but striking when played well...
...undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split up the course into sections of comparable ability. Many students might start right off the bat with English Ab. Harried section men would find themselves successfully teaching a whole class, not part of one. And a lot of Freshmen would learn a great...