Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a month Yale will face the difficult job of considering the curriculum recommendations made by the Course of Study Committee, a faculty group which reports late in April on the state of University academic life, it was learned yesterday...
...with those three or four years? Even as Churchill was speaking last week, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles in the Far East was setting the foundations for a political-military alliance that could, if carried through, provide a position of strength for years to come. Dulles' delicate and difficult job: to build the will to resist without provoking war; to promise protection, yet to avoid tying down U.S. strength; to present to the Communists a front that is both adamant and flexible. Since many of the pressures on Dulles sprang from exaggerated jitters about World War III, his important...
...popular skits about wholesome families, presumably model Christian families; some of them are the best argument for celibacy advanced since the Middle Ages. I would never have believed that anything could be stickier than some of the soap operas, but religion has outdone even Lever Brothers. The difficult art of Christian family life is reduced to little moralisms and pleasantries, and to the cheerful conclusion that it pays in the end . . . Religion is introduced as a fragment of ritual, or a moralistic cliche, or an offstage voice quoting Scripture in a mellifluous voice...
Salzburg-born Herbert von Karajan, 46, began his career as a pianist, became conductor of a small opera house (at Ulm) when he was 21. Today he is regarded as one of the world's finest conductors, but personally one of the most difficult. In 1939 he began a running musical feud with Furtwangler. In 1948, when both men were conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Von Karajan left when he lost a battle over rehearsal rights. Later, he also abandoned Salzburg to his older rival, took refuge in Bayreuth, which he left in turn after he insisted on changing some...
...World Health Organization recognizes 999 different categories of diseases, injuries and causes of death, including 125 methods of suicide. But in those parts of the world that are not used to statistics, tabulating figures on who died of what has proved difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody...