Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reclining Figure (by Harry Kurnitz) is a comedy about an eccentric and difficult art collector, and his daughter and his dealers and his staff. Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm-rather than mere acquisitive excitement-for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten...
...that modern world conditions demanded the University undertake a program more positive than the traditional birthday party-fund raising celebration. Discussion brought forth the idea of attempting to center the world's attention on the free and just use of knowledge. It was a noble idea and a difficult task. Ironically, the Committee was afraid its scheme would no longer prove apt by 1954. Nevertheless, it adopted the ponderous phrase, "man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof" and began planning to unite the world behind this slogan...
Some of these medleys have become the best known numbers in the band's repertoire, further underscoring the musical emphasis. Band members have to compete for their positions and pride themselves on the difficult music they attempt. The wide sale of the ban's three records (ivy League Album, Up the Street, and Through the Square) attested to their success. In fact, a good deal of the organization's $15,000 yearly budget is obtained from the sale of these records...
...difficult task of editing the papers of the prominent Adams family is under the direction of Lyman H. Butterfield '30, who has also consented to lecture in American history here at the University. Butterfield, associate editor of the Jefferson Historical Papers at Princeton, calls the Adams family collection "unique, surpassing all others of its kind...
Even strict non-alignment is difficult for some to understand in light of India's strong opposition to internal communism. Not only are India's leaders educated in the Western liberal tradition and its institutions modeled on Western democratic patterns, but India's laws against internal subversion are harsh. Many ask, why if so dedicated to democracy at home, India refuses to line up with America, which is obviously for peace and democracy...