Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hooks (Jim) lack the aptitude for character work that these early scenes demand, and Michael Murray's direction, competent for the most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...
Before meeting Yale, the varsity must get through Princeton and Brown without incident. Without Bagnoli, this may prove difficult. But the Crimson's momentum should carry it through the next two weeks, and the clash with Yale should be the battle of the season. IVY LEAGUE SOCCER W L T Pts. Harvard 3 0 0 6 Yale 3 0 0 6 Penn 2 1 1 5 Brown 2 1 1 5 Princeton 2 2 0 4 Cornell 0 3 0 0 Dartmouth...
...diversified backgrounds of its members somehow seem to pull the squad into a close-knit unit that has allowed only two goals in five games, while scoring 11 itself. But today's contest poses an exceptionally difficult challenge, as the team feels obliged to better Yale's score over Andover...
...army of pre-professional counselors (resident House pre-medical advisors et. al.) do a fine job of placing, selling, and guiding the bulk of the senior class. But prospective graduate students in the arts with no foreign fellowship ambitions get little in the way of guidance gladhanding. It is difficult, in the context of the College's present placement system, to find someone who can answer a question like "to which schools do I apply if I want to study the history and culture of modern Germany...
...American State Department has handled the whole affair to date with a tact and tolerance that it would not have shown in the days of Dulles' "agonizing reappraisal." How long this restraint will last is difficult to say. De Gaulle can be allowed to have his way on the dates and places of conferences; but if grandeur starts interfering with serious Western policy, obviously the United States must, however reluctantly, put the French in their place...