Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little chance to relax. Next to the President of the U.S., he has the most difficult and trying political job in the land. Three months ago he almost collapsed with nervous exhaustion, the occupational ailment of the New York executive. He spent eight days in Bellevue Hospital, began taking a relaxing drink of Scotch before dinner, went off to California for a rest. But he came hurrying back after four weeks to ward off a strike which threatened to tie up the bus lines. "There's no use kidding," he says. "You can't take it easy...
...Nazarovs is an attempt to reconstruct, in fictional form, the agony of the Russian people between 1892 and 1942. Mrs. Fischer obviously has a warm heart, an observant eye and an intelligent mind. But fiction is an art which demands more: the rare light of imagination and the difficult tools of prose...
Once in Cambridge the individual faces his most difficult year as he starts. The student is at his most impressionable as a freshman, and the difficulties he faces are many. The usefulness of the freshman adviser in the situation varies with the widely different abilities of the advisory staff. Further pressure on the student from University Hall, however, while possibly a solution to some of the academic errors of the freshman year-particularly over-specialization--, would bring too many attendant injuries to undergraduate freedom with it to be recommended...
...must also provide an alternative which will permit grading at least as fair and sensitive as that which prevails under the examination system. This alternative can be derived from one of the most rewarding innovations of the General Education courses: short, frequent written assignments during the term. It is difficult to admit the possibility of education without examinations, but a careful analysis of papers as a substitute for tests shows them to meet all the requirements...
...prefer their movies with a nervous tempo and honeyed brightness will find it very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...