Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was not a great deal. Junger's language is often musical and thrilling, but his images of fallen glory (grey Byzantium, the sleeping emperor, druids) and modern confusion (herds of taxis, flame-winged planes, departing stars) seemed little more than trite. At times it was difficult to escape the feeling that one was being served warmed-over Yeats. For me this use of commonplace imagery counteracted the strength which language alone might have given the piece...
Bookkeeping More Difficult...
...plan will make University bookkeeping even more difficult because of the two additional room rent bills, Perry said. In the past, rent has been paid at the beginning of the fall and spring terms. Students will henceforth receive bills at registration, on Nov. 21, Jan. 20, and April...
Several things counteract these advantages, however, instructors admit. Adults are less fluent with abstract concepts in general and have usually forgotten the techniques of learning developed and practiced in college or school days. In language course they find it more difficult to memorize, although that may be an advantage in other studies, one teacher observed. Many adults, unaccustomed to class recitations, are even more reluctant to participate than most reticent undergraduates. "And a leader of industry doesn't relish correction by a professor half his age," one professor commented...
Most of the disillusion springs from the teachers themselves--for elementary languages are particularly difficult for research scholars to teach, particularly when many of their students have developed in high school a remarkable immunity toward learning language. At Harvard, research men are continually meeting the new and challenging ideas of their fields, equipping them to inspire their General Education students with provocative ideas...