Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menzies faced a difficult time, the Laborites had their troubles too. Right-wing Laborites (mostly Roman Catholic) have long criticized Party Leader Herbert Evatt, 64, for his easygoing attitude toward Communists in unions. They formed their own splinter group, the Democratic Labor Party...
...throng in Kansas City, caused a scattering of academic shudders with his theories of musicianship ("If a performer has to sacrifice something, he should sacrifice the notes rather than the inspiration"), allowed that he had time to cultivate some home-grown corn: "Jazz is a kind of form, not difficult, that helps make the evaluation of classical music even higher. I play it myself to relax...
...Secretary of the Navy intends the college-taught psychology course to strengthen the officers' leadership ability," Captain Richard T. Spofford, professor of Naval Science, explained. "Our problem is to choose the right course, and this is difficult because the University offers little in the way of applied psychology...
Their ringmaster is Jan Hartman'60, and in a sense his job is an easy one; it is difficult for an intelligent group of actors to go very far wrong with Waiting for Godot. The play is constructed of a series of savage ironies, with a vein of harsh pessimism running behind it and through it. So long as the ironies and the pessimism emerge, a director can take the play any way he likes, if he moves with intelligence and consistency...
...buildings provide 20 four-man and 64 two-man suites, with a total of 113 single and 82 double bedrooms. John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, explained that no triples will be included because, "statistically, they are difficult to get rid of, and we already have them in McKinlock...