Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheerfulness, commented a foreman in the Central Kitchen, makes it difficult to believe that she was born in 1892. But Mrs. Corballis has modern tastes, including Jazz and the Republicans. "I used to be a Democrat," she explains, "but they never did anything for me." To keep up with the world, she reads the American and follows the lives of Tony DeSpirito and Jack Dempsey. "It's good to see Ted Williams back," she added, "we need...
There is a place now and professionals to run it, but casting is still sometimes difficult. Only enough money to retain a permanent reperatory company could solve the Theatre's problems. "We hope someday to be able to perform part of every week," Miss Huntington has said. Towards this the Poets' Theatre is working with the same quiet intent which it put into the Palmer Street space. That intent has done quite a lot in five years...
...difficult to avoid the conclusion that the State Department had its eye on the ballot-boxes, not the history books in publishing the Yalta documents at this time. Curiously enough, the Department had first scheduled the issuance of the Yalta volume for October, 1954, just a month before the Congressional election. Violent objections from the British Foreign Office stopped publication then. But leading Republican Congressmen have kept up steady pressure for release of the documents, and the Department finally decided to go ahead last week despite the obvious British objection...
...will be difficult for Southern liberals to admit to themselves that with the legal rejection of the separate but equal doctrine there is no longer a middle ground between the reactionaries who oppose and the progressives who support complete human equality. Because of their role as spokesmen for the white South, the Southern liberals have retained the confidence and acceptance of their Southern neighbors. Thus they can now take the initiative in working for the immediate implementation of legal reforms-if they are genuinely sincere in wanting the political, economic, and cultural equality of all American citizens...
...cause. They commission new music for violin and piano duos ("We pay quite small fees, but something"). If they did not commission such works, they would be left with Chausson, Haydn, and very little else. Much of what they play is twelve-tone music. Says Anahid: "It's difficult, and some of it sounds awful at first, with all those great jumps all over the place. But often there are quite beautiful melodies...