Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subtle was the spread of existential thinking in psychotherapy that for a quarter-century it made no mark in the English-speaking world. The most eminent Freudians in Britain today still haughtily deny that they ever heard of it-a pose difficult to maintain in view of the fact that the International Congress of Psychotherapy at Barcelona in September was centered on existential analysis. At this meeting Dr. May explained why its influence in the U.S. has so far been negligible. A pragmatic tradition tracing back to frontier days, he contended, has made Americans a nation of doers, suspicious...
...Bueno y Monreal, 54, native of Saragossa, Spain, was attorney general of the Madrid-Alcalá diocese during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop coadjutor to the late Pedro Cardinal Segura, the terrible-tempered, reactionary Archbishop of Seville. Cardinal Segura refused to see him, tried to block Monreal's every effort to liberalize Segura's restrictions (such as forbidding Catholics to attend "public spectacles...
...other Crimson starters--sophomore Hal Pouser at 130, and junior John Watkins at 137--face similarly difficult tasks against experienced opposition. Cornell is undoubtedly the toughest team the varsity must face this season, but especially in the Ivy League, anything can happen, though it probably...
...that it was highly successful in capturing the main problems involved, and in showing why a solution is not going to be reached easily. There is one statement, however, which is definitely out of place in this well informed article, and that is the assertion that "it would be difficult to find any real progress achieved" in the last five years...
Professor Walter Bate, formerly chairman of the Committee on History and Literature and now head of the English department, feels that the increased size of the tutorial staff is the main factor. As recently as 1947-48 there were only nine tutors; there are now twenty-nine. It is difficult for twenty-nine people to get around a table at the weekly tutorial luncheons to work out something of a common point-of-view...