Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played by three instruments: drums, a drone-type stringed instrument, and a melodic stringed instrument. The drummer starts setting up complex rhythm often based on seven beats, over which the melody instrument improvises an increasingly complicated part, while the drone keeps up a fill-in. The music is quite difficult to understand at first, partially due to the strange scales it uses. But repeated hearings brig out the intricate beauty of its very advanced art. It is worthwhile buying the "de luxe" edition, as the explanatory notes by Yehudi Menuhin are very helpful. (Angel...
...quantity and diversity of material in the present issue make it rather difficult to approaching a general way. The magazine is ostensibly dedicated to the memory of James Agee, and the excerpts from his unfinished and as yet unpublished novel, A Death in the Family, certainly make up the most distinguished body of fiction that the editors have yet presented. On the other hand, there is considerable emphasis on the works--fiction and essay--of the New York writer Paul Goodman, whose writing has appeared in previous issues...
LeLand believed that progress had been made by broaching the subject and finding out the primary objections. The Committee felt that it would be difficult to get a reversal this year, but constructive work could be done to help next year's freshman class obtain the extension...
Coach Norm Shepard has a difficult task ahead of him this spring--to match or better the record of last year's nine, the team that took the Greater Boston League title and went undefeated in Ivy League play until its last loop contest, when it lost to Yale...
...aside from architecture and mottos, little of the real Harvard ever appeared. A few scenes from lectures, dining halls, house dances, bull sessions, football games, and Cronins would not have hurt. The Harvard atmosphere is difficult to place on a black and white screen, but Omnibus not only missed, it did not even make a good college...