Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans are under way to mount it off-Broadway during the coming season; and the motivation is justified, for this is an important play. It is "difficult" and unorthodox, and demands unflagging concentration. There is no plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...
...night-crawler colony of summer artists numbers upwards of a hundred, living in various degrees of leisure from sublet Fresh Pond homes to park benches and sleeping bags. Its members have a particularly difficult lot: the coffee-houses and cafes are closed; the Brattle shows nothing but popular films; the banks of the Charles are too crowded for contemplation. And the bare bones of sustenance itself present a problem...
Harvey Mudd's permanent faculty is young (average age: 34) and bright. Recruiting is not difficult for President Platt; in addition to the fine climate and mountain-valley site, the college pays excellent salaries and offers new faculty members the chance to spend part of their first year doing nothing but planning courses. Large areas of the new college's curriculum are still not mapped in detail, and professors meet to dovetail their separate requirements at beer-and-sandwich klatches...
...Married couples have three equally important duties: procreation, sexual relations and the obligations of family loyalty. To keep all three "in one frame of moral reference is an art man has had a long fight to learn, and must still steadily fight to preserve." However difficult the balance may be, the new freedom that modern methods of contraception brings to "sexuality in marriage in our time is ... a gate to a new depth and joy in personal relationships between husband and wife. At a time when so much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve...
...after 26 holes. But she three-putted the 27th and Anne got her short game going better than ever. She birdied three of the next four holes (one with a brilliant 25-ft. putt) to take the lead. At the 34th hole, Anne cautiously surveyed a difficult uphill nine-footer, calmly dropped it for still another birdie to win the title in a great finish. 3 and 2. Said the new champ: "This is a dream I've had since...