Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams does. She is vulnerable all right, but there is no love or tenderness in this Blanche. A dimension has been omitted. What should be a woman desperate for love, protection, and security is merely a woman desperate for sex. As conceived by Mr. Rabb, it is difficult to imagine Blanche's remaining faithful even to Mitch, her Rosenkavalier, the man she wants so desperately to marry...
...Conrad is an even more remarkable man than your June 15 article indicates. Many years ago he tried to save a woman from walking into a turning propeller, suffered serious head injuries himself. It's still difficult for him to write, he talks hesitantly, yet has been gradually overcoming these handicaps out of sheer will power and determination...
Said Father Wilfrid Kelly of Crewe, Cheshire last week: "This is difficult to do, but the necessity for it is perfectly understandable. Think of Cardinal Newman's reference to the slow dance of the Mass. Read how God told the Israelites to build the tabernacle in the desert, and note the tremendous visual detail in his instructions. Our Lord's methods were perfect television, in three dimensions...
...rich in 1922, he steadfastly refused to go into refining and marketing, or merge with anyone who did. But now, at 79, he is growing weary of the fight and realizes that a producer must have markets to remain strong. Says a Keck aide: "It has simply become too difficult to do business. Without refinery facilities, we have no import quotas of our own and are entirely at the mercy of the majors. When they want our oil, we move it. When they don't, it sits there. The sale to Texaco, which has tremendous refining capacity...
...lavished as much care on the serious as on the comic and farcical aspects. Consequently we can best see the play as it really is: when the lines soar, this production soars; when the writing flags, so does the production. The director's decision was daring, dangerous, and difficult; and I doff my derby in docile deference...