Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result has been that it is increasingly difficult to label the Supreme Court...
...Robert Craft in the 1950s, also on Columbia. The postman may never whistle Webern's melodies, as Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show to what extent performers have mastered his difficult idiom in the past two decades. Among the highlights: the feathery shading of Soprano HeatheR Harper's pitch in the early songs; the tensile, wire-sculpture precision of members of the Juilliard String Quartet in the String Trio (1927); the transparent textures and rhythmic subtlety of Boulez and the L.S.O...
...times were slow but deceiving as the leaders split in the 4:40s on a seemingly difficult rolling course, which winds in and out of cornfields with small hills and grassy turf...
Passage of the bill will be difficult, said Rep. William Moorhead (D-Pa.), chairman of the subcommittee considering the proposal...
Even simple rules like those can be difficult to enforce, though. Lesley, a small teachers' college for women, has trouble enforcing any rules more stringent than those of its larger, laxer neighbor Harvard, Williams says. "Harvard can get away with anything it wants. We're smaller, we can't," she adds. "And yet, if we were way off in the sticks, a lot of our policies would be considered very liberal...