Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never had to think about it like some one outside the movement." When he finally tried conventional portraits, he wrote his friend, Art Dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: "It's fun for me all the time to learn how it is done ... I always thought it was far more difficult...
...Harvard Summer School Chorus for the second time. The resulting 50-minute concert, again under the expert leadership of Harold Schmidt, proved highly enjoyable if not quite up to the level of last summer's show. The shortcomings were due to two factors: Schmidt's essayal of more difficult music, and a less effective use of the television cameras...
Faust, as a play, has languished for decades in literature courses and anthologies. It is a difficult drama to produce: it is long, the requirements on the actors in interpretation are tremendous, and the title of this musty classic does not draw at the box-office. Moreover, it is a three-ring circus of dramatic forms--a curious medley of tragedy, farce, melodrama, satire and philosophy--which presents an almost insurmountable problem of style and pacing for the director...
...demonstration that Faust is as suited to the stage as to the bookshelf, Frank has treated the play as a "mystery," rather than as a tragedy or philosophical melodrama. For the theatre, it is difficult to find fault with his judgment...
...shoes. The evidence shows that among groups of men, the partly unclad are attacked first, and usually in the feet ... As aimless splashing will attract sharks, swimming motions should be smooth and easy. Slow, coordinated strokes that keep the swimmer riding horizontally on the surface where he offers a difficult target are the safest...