Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, even downright sloppy. Many of the canvases, contrary assertions aside, have been leaving the studio too fast. There are those who declare that Picasso is at last treating his mesmerized public to the joke skeptics accused him of playing as early as the 1900's. This, however, is difficult to accept. If the man has begun to fool anyone he has first gulled his own ego. These latest statements are fully as ingenuous as the most taut of his analytical cubist masterpieces, even if they are lacking in other respects...
When the site is the finally decided upon, Watson pointed out, there will still be several problems involved. The most "difficult one" will be liquor, since Radcliffe does not allow liquor in the college. Hours and finances will have to be studied also, he said...
...often the case that Harvard must search out such applicants through local alumni clubs and admissions-committee members' visits. Getting the Westerner or Southerner to Harvard is often a matter of recruitment, and any mathematics requirement might make this recruiting very difficult, if not impossible in certain areas...
Part of Segovia's power over his audience derives from his single-minded devotion to the instrument he restored to concert-hall favor. "The guitar is as difficult as a hysterical woman," he says. "But I am faithful to her. I am not polygamous." Segovia still practices five hours each day, and for a month each summer he teaches classical guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also gives more concerts than ever (120 scheduled this year). Segovia generally avoids flashier-sounding pieces. "If people have even a little understanding," he says, "it is better...
...Mach 4. If it returns from this jaunt with its wings unmelted and its pilot alive, the door to true space flight will be open at least a crack. Return to the earth from a satellite orbit or a trip to Mars should not be very much more difficult...