Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instrument is not entirely familiar to the men who play it. "In cello playing, the accepted standards are lower than with the violin. Basic under standing of the instrument is not developed. Players may know how to go from one place to another, but not why it is difficult to do so, or how to do it better." To improve this situation, Cellist Starker hopes to start a professional school for string players, teaches cello privately, and travels among U.S. community orchestras as string consultant. Meanwhile, he plays solo whenever he gets the chance...
...uncomfortable situations, is very good indeed. His distinguished manner never falters as he lets his hair down and becomes a surprisingly human being. Kay Walsh, his neurotic, ambitions, but basically good wife, is somewhat less successful. The contrast she must draw with her godly husband and noble daughter is difficult to define. No Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri. Her back-talk to the smart aleck, home-town piano teacher who has great hopes for her future, is sparkling. She obviously will move to London for her piano lessons, he will...
...most enlightened and far-seeing program of national development and use of oil revenues anywhere in the Middle East." Yet "Iraq's tragedy," says one American specialist, "is that she needs everything but money." The financing of Nuri's program inside the country was made vastly more difficult when 123,000 dissatisfied Jews migrated to Israel and drained the country of much of its banking and commercial skills. Its realization will be all the harder because too few Iraqis know or care what the program is all about...
...Pravda Boris Polevoy rhapsodized: "What we saw was unusually attractive and interesting. Even knowing well the magnitude of technical thought of American engineers, it is difficult to imagine the 102-story Empire State Building without seeing it. One can dispute whether such high buildings are needed, but one cannot help admiring the boldness of the planners and the golden hand of the workers. [There is] the bridge of many kilometers that hangs like iron lace over the bay connecting San Francisco and Oakland; the Ford factory near Cleveland, where you hardly see any workers in shops that produce eight-cylinder...
...Janice Forester are contented with each other, their eleven-year-old daughter Polly and fate-that difficult headwaiter whom they have charmed into giving them the best table. Janice is a healthy model of housewifely efficiency. Tom is a grey flannel suitor of success who has $14,000 a year and the boss's ear to show for his efforts. His boss is a sexurbanite who keeps adding fresh blonde codicils to his own tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment...