Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammarskjold faces also the difficult task of presenting to Egypt an acceptable plan which will insulate the canal from Egypt's internal politics to the satisfaction of the West. The Egyptian dictator will not and cannot accept outright international control, either in operation of the Canal or collection of its revenues. Furthermore, Egypt has proved herself capable of operating the canal herself, and if a semi-peaceful situation is established, there is no reason why the foreign pilots who left in October should not return. Egypt was operating the canal acceptably in October and their unexpected success might have been...
Since Saudi Arabia has become a cornerstone of the Eisenhower doctrine in the Arab world, this makes it much more difficult for the United States to give Israel the support she demands for her shipping. Those who know King Saud say American pressure on the issue might change him from an influential friend of the United States to a bitter enemy...
...presented the avant-garde among Harvard composers, plus some songs by Anton Webern, a very good name nowadays. Most of the student music has been or will be played at concerts of the Composers Laboratory, and the opportunity for two hearings is valuable as this music is often difficult to grasp at a single hearing. The Pieces for Prepared Piano by Christian Wolff, for example, seemed much more comprehensible than at the first performance; nonetheless their resources will have to be expanded, as the music is too static. The Three Songs, also by Wolff, were an evocative use of Soprano...
...newly required course in methods and the Senior Seminar will also serve to lend continuity to the mass of theory and information that the concentrator in Social Relations encounters. Perhaps though, the most important changes are those making concentration more difficult...
This is its excellence: it honestly faces and thoroughly explores a situation from which our escape will be difficult. And the reader comes to feel, with Sam Norris, "I guess the hour has always been late... Someday it may really be late,, who knows? The bomb is about to fall, the apocalypse is overdue, we'd all better make up for lost time and apply ourselves to the true education...