Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Property Is Condemned, first of the three works, poses a difficult problem of interpretation which Director Colgate Salsbury fails to solve. Williams probably intended to give this sketch an ethereal quality. Yet the conversation between two young misfits, as they walk along the tracks of a Mississippi railroad, lends itself to this treatment only at the risk of becoming overly romantic. Instead, the Workshop performs it with chatty overtones, emphasizing the juvenile character of the leads...
...complaint to be leveled at the Workshop's first production is the general dreariness of the selections, although both The Purification and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion contain excellent moments. If Williams is hard to take in such large doses, however, the Workshop has demonstrated its ability to handle difficult material. The three plays, which will receive their final two performances today, are a promising start...
Even ignoring the faulty historical justification, Hastie finds himself involved in still more difficult problems. The three religious centers that he would like to install would constitute a drain on already limited financial resources. Although Hastie has assured the Association he would look to its needs first, the same endowment funds obviously cannot be used twice. In past years the Association has been assisted by very sizeable amounts of each year's Combined Charities collection, in addition to the endowment funds. With part of the endowment committed to the religious groups, the Association would have to rely still more heavily...
...Adelaide's Lament in Guys and Dolls sings of "psychosomatic symptoms difficult to endure" ("In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold / A person can develop a cold"). But Manhattan's Dr. Bret Ratner disagrees with Adelaide. The psychosomatic approach to allergies, he complains, has become so popular that the family doctor has a hard time deciding whether to refer cases to a psychiatrist or an allergist. Allergist Ratner plumps for the allergist. Says he: "If the psychiatric factors are treated exclusively, there can be little hope for lasting help...
...that the economy is neither "stable" nor "stagnant," in the sense of being motionless. With such new industries as air conditioning and color television still in their infancy, and with new consumers being born at the rate of 10,700 a day, most economists believe that it would be difficult indeed for the U.S. economy to become stagnant. What has actually happened, in the view of Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter and others, is that the U.S. economy has become so complex-and strong-that the parts no longer necessarily move in the same direction all at once...