Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly say that Jesus was a mild reformer-after all, he made a lot of people angry, and he wound up on a cross. Nor would I say that he was primarily interested in changing social conditions; he was after something deeper and more difficult-changing the human spirit...
...making anti-party statements. This is serious business-only last year, two students had to be shot for forming a secret society. At this moment Novelist Grinioff's comic theme bursts into full cauliflower as his outraged Communist echoes the cry of many a rich bourgeois with a difficult child: "Where did she learn such words? She had a governess...
...Penn contest is any indication, the varsity has apparently jelled into a rather strong offensive and defensive squad, and if Princeton is not "up" for next Saturday's game in the Stadium, it may be in for a very difficult afternoon.Crimson tackle PETE BRIGGS (77) pounces on a Pennsylvania mistake midway through the second quarter of the varsity's upset victory over Penn Saturday. Coming in from far right to support Briggs' recovery is STU HERSOHN...
...performance of the young Hungarian violinist, Johanna Martzy, in the Brahms Violin Concerto was the major event of the afternoon. Substituting at the last moment, her reading stressed the dramatic qualities of the concerto without neglecting its lyricism. She has enough tone and technique to render the most difficult passages of this difficult work with seeming ease. The first movement cadenza was especially remarkable for its coherence, the sustained ending and orchestral entrance providing a particularly beautiful phrase...
...second work was the Variations, Chaconne and Finale by Norman Dello Joio. It is a well-scored and serious work by one of our leading contemporary composers, and a good work for an amateur orchestra to perform, being neither too difficult nor too trivial in content. The orchestra played it well, and one particularly difficult variation received an unexpectedly virtuosic treatment...