Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high marks for doing as much as he has to lessen his people's poverty, cure their diseases, school them and make a nation of them. It will recognize, too, that Nehru, like China's Sun Yat-sen and Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, has had a difficult and frustrating role to .play in bringing his people into democratic nationhood under tutelage. In these pursuits, Jawaharlal Nehru has his high place, even though he will not be an ally, and is not particularly a friend...
...arrange the music for Roland Petit's fall variety show and to co-star with Chevalier in a 13-week stand at the Théátre Alhambra. But he still casts a wistful look back at the classical career he planned for himself. "It's difficult to be a composer of serious music," he says. "You have to be convinced that you're terrific, or you're nothing. It's not the same as popular music...
...result of the call for compulsory education in India's new constitution, the number of children attending school has risen by 20 percent, according to Kuppuswamy. The speaker, who has been chairman of a committee to promote Indian education, reported that the most difficult problem is getting parents to send their children to school...
Harrison & Higgins, Inc. In Higgins, Rex Harrison plays a character close to his own-which may actually be more difficult than hiding behind King Lear's beard or Pistol's putty nose. Harrison and Higgins are both aggressively British and crisply upper crust. Both are absorbed in their work and in themselves. Both are curt, clear, complacent. Both can be beastly and charming at the same time. Or, as Rex puts it: "I always find it less difficult than some actors to be irascible without being unpleasant. I've taken over some of Higgins...
...houses, and got an occasional bit part in London. He wore a monocle, used a long cigarette holder, fancied Scotch and hot music. He seemed rich and dashing even though he was actually poor and plugging. As things got harder he made his acting look easier. "Everything was always difficult for me," he says gloomily, and then brightens: "It's unfortunate that more American actors don't get that kind of experience. It's a marvelous backlog for you to learn the hard...