Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frances Leighton give excellent unsentimental performances of Ronnie's father and sister. Arthur Winslow spends his health and, with his daughter's approval, her dowry to clear the family honor. Yet there is never a hint of hand-wringing or "What-Shall-We-Do?" histronics. The feeling of continued hardship is worked in by the skillful use of gloomy, gray photography...
...Godin, a shy, intense parish priest who decided that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...
Even a severe change in temperature, such as occurred last week when the mercury nose-dived from 60 to eight degrees overnight, does not work an unusual hardship...
...Administration's "overcrowding" argument greatly overestimates the hardship of the present expansion. Few rooms are too crowded to be comfortable. In fact, some Housemasters found themselves pressuring students into deconverting. Instead of allowing students in the Houses to deconvert but encouraging them to take in students from the outside dormitories, House authorities have done the exact opposite...