Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tries. Civilization cannot be learned from books. What about the countless fiery speeches of Banda and his followers in which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator, big house, etc., when the whites are kicked out of Nyasaland? Are these the words of responsible leaders? Is it so difficult to understand that Britain can safely allow this sort of nonsense to be spouted daily at Hyde Park Corner, but not in Blantyre to an unsophisticated audience of Africans...
...Boeing 707 to the gleaming city that the Allies, for all their discords, had liberated in a brilliant campaign. There, waiting at Paris' Le Bourget Airport, stood erect General Charles de Gaulle, France's Man of Liberation and Man of Recovery, and now a proud and difficult ally often billed as NATO's No.1 problem. When the President all but sprinted down the ramp. De Gaulle stepped forward and said in English, "Hello, how are you?" Said De Gaulle later in a formal greeting: "You are a man, a man of intelligence, a man of heart...
...Conant was highly encouraged: "All of the schools could have been made as good as the best or even better. I am more and more convinced that it would be much more difficult to make a radical change in our schools than to improve those we now have...
...summer shows pointed up the fact that abstraction reigns supreme in the hearts of the nation's young artists. To make a great abstraction is difficult-perhaps even impossible. But passably assured and decorative examples are fairly easy to produce, and juries-under the spell of trend and times-tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean...
When he sits down to help judge the world's first international harp competition in Jerusalem next week, U.S. Harpist Carlos Salzedo will face a difficult task. More than a few of the 50 competitors have studied under Salzedo and many are sure to play at least one of the master's compositions. It could be no other way. At 74, the sprightly Basque musician stands at the top of his art, a man who has spent a lifetime studying "the angels' instrument." teaching others to play and the world to enjoy its mellow music. Salzedo. says...