Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether Lady Macbeth will find a place in the world's operatic repertoire is a matter for doubtful conjecture. It was difficult to think of it last week without an all-Russian cast in which every member has a real feeling for an earthy Russian village. But what Shostakovich has accomplished with his orchestra will long be remembered by all who listened to it seriously. His vulgar homespun libretto prepared people for something madly modern. Such a heroine as Katerina seemed ludicrously impossible. Yet when the curtain went up there were no fierce shriekings. Katerina was quietly, miserably restless...
...severe influenza. The temperature rises rapidly, often to from 103° to 104° F., with chills, great depression, weakness, pains in the head and limbs. The eruption appears on the fourth or fifth day after the onset and, except in times of epidemic, the diagnosis is extremely difficult in the pre-eruptive stage. As the eruption appears, the fever is apt to rise. The rash usually begins on the shoulders and trunk, extending to the extremities, the backs of the hands and feet, and sometimes to the palms and soles. It becomes more abundant during the subsequent days...
...puck left Marty Burke's stick so fast that few of the spectators in the Chicago Stadium knew what had become of it until they heard its sharp crack as Burke's teammate, Paul Thompson, stopped it. Expecting Thompson to try a difficult side shot for the goal, eight players turned sharply on their skates, churned up a white cloud of ice. But back spun the puck to Burke, who, almost as if he were practicing goal shots alone on the rink, sent it sliding past two defensemen, past Goalie Worters-and a red light flashed behind...
...because of some horse play that occurred recently. Water was thrown along with the usual missiles. It is not our purpose to approve horse play (although if it is not a too frequent occurrence it is difficult to disapprove). But why the measure taken to prevent repetition? Will the fact that there is but one entrance where there were two, lessen exuberance in the night lunch? Was there something about the atmosphere of the O entry passage that incited deviltry? If so, why let men go out that way? They may start a riot in the court yard any night...
Henry Fitts '36 and "Bunny" Merriam '36 were the evening's brilliant performers by rolling up the high scores of 102.46 and 97.24 respectively. During the intermission they performed some difficult double acrobatic diving off the high board. Together they did a dive called the "Paul Revere," which looked like a mixture of a tandem riding and a juggling...