Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when the University is placing increasing emphasis on both General Education and the Humanities, the Music Department is faced with the difficult problem of how to fulfill is responsibility to both. It must, on the one hand, retain a certain minimum degree of intensity for the concentrator in what is by nature a highly technical branch of Humanities. On the other, as one of the most popular fields for the generally-educated, it must be nontechnical and historical enough for the non-concentrator...
...manpower situation is concerned, the department is finally emerging from "the valley of the shadow of death" according to Chairman Randall Thompson '20. At least one new professor and one instructor will be appointed next year, and possibly more. But, even if this problem is solved, the more difficult question of the function of a music department in a liberal arts college will still remain...
...growing and will continue to grow in the months to come, is the one with which Western policy will have to reckon. A realistic German policy must therefore work out some means by which Germany can be reunified and remain allied with the West. This will be a difficult and possibly impossible task, but it is one which we must face if it will retain German power in the Cold...
...Difficult Agenda. In Vienna this week, when the Big Four foreign ministers met to sign the Austrian treaty, Vyacheslav M. Molotov accepted the invitation for the Soviet Union. As outlined and accepted, the conference would have three stages. First, the foreign ministers would meet briefly to lay the groundwork, and perhaps to agree on a broad agenda. Then, with their foreign ministers at hand, the Big Four heads of government-Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Edgar Faure and Nikolai Bulganin-would meet to discuss issues and methods of arriving at solutions. Later the foreign ministers and their aides would deal...
...Bevan, by contrast, was all slash and stab. "The Tawies have got the difficult task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...