Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high register of the instruments makes the specific pitch of each note difficult to grasp. This is also the case with Stockhausen, as Robert Craft points out: "For example, we hear a high, loud, staccato note in the oboe; that it is high, loud, staccato, and played by an oboe are factors of almost as great importance as whether the note itself...
...briefer speech, seconded the motion, smiled at Hall, and sat down. It was evident they had planned the motion and seconding. A murmur had gone through the twenty-five members of the department, a part of it tense and whispered. Briggs, an old hand at such meetings, sensed a difficult situation. There were full professors present who would not have been full professors if Greg had remained on the staff, and Briggs knew the depth of their dislike and resentment; and they in turn, by innuendo and gesture, had communicated their sentiments to certain younger members of the department. Briggs...
Offensively, then, the varsity figures to do all right. But first it will have to get the ball away from Princeton. And this will likely prove a very difficult job.Varsity tackles BOB SHAUNESSY and PETE BRIGGS...
Budd Suhulberg realized the significance of his subject in writing his The Disenchanted, a novel based on Schulberg's trip with Fitzgerald to the Dartmouth Winter Carnival to write a script for a pot-boiler movie comedy. Yet just as Schulburg found it difficult to give direction and intellectual plausbility to his novel, he has failed to produce a coherent and meaningful play...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra seems to thrive on performing works which are just a bit too difficult; the players combine spirit with effort and in the field of amateur musical performances, such enthusiasm is indispensable. If, as was occasionally the case last Friday evening, there are moments when things get out of hand, these moments are justified by the overall effect of a concert virtually devoid of the apathy and stiffness which had characterized the Orchestra in recent years...