Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Harriman's position may be of doubtful legality, Javits' is certainly of little wisdom. An avowed liberal, Javits should be present in the Senate on January 3 to aid the move aimed at changing Senate rules to make filibustering over civil rights legislation more difficult...
...automatically restores him to the audience's sympathies. But it beclouds the potentially fascinating problem of how a once-great man, three times almost President, would feel after an ignominious, even ridiculous, defeat. The collapse is only one example of the playwrights' constant tendency to avoid exploring deep, if difficult, human problems by escaping to the simple antitheses and effects of melodrama...
...replaced by the aggregate of points. Whether the feeling of oppression from lack of variety which comes after hearing this music for five minutes would be dispelled by a knowledge of its structural subtleties is a crucial question, for upon its answer lies the life or death of this difficult style...
Then, too, Weiland must solve a difficult defense problem. The varsity has no full-time defensemen left over from last year's team and only a few who played on the Yardling sextet. Probably the greatest blow to the team's chances is the fact that Dan Ullyot, a first-rate defenseman on the '55 team, may not be able to play at all. Ullyot has an ear injury and cannot possibly play at least until February...
Hurley, who with senior Bob Barnett, has always had the difficult defensive assignments, will play the other guard with Hastings. Hurley does not have much of an outside shot, but can drive well when his man relaxes too much. Barnett and Harrington will be used to fill in for these two, as well as veteran Al Lubetkin...