Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunted Men" is more serious, being a psychological study of a fugitive criminal. Lloyd Nolan plays this part well, but honors go to Lynne Overman, who starts out as his usual alcoholic self but sobers up in time to give a sensitive, understanding portrayal of a difficult role...
...curtain. The action, though a trifle slow, went off with creditable smoothness, and the costumes by Alfonso Ossorio '38 and the lighting by George Wells contributed to the professional atmosphere of the production. All credit should be given to the Poet's Theatre of Harvard for undertaking such a difficult and rewarding task and congratulations offered for the measure of success achieved...
...critical reader will find this part more difficult to swallow. Altogether too glib is Mr. Hicks' defense of the U. S. S. R. in which he admits that the right to criticize the government, the right to advocate a change of government have been denied the Russian people, and adds: "these are not rights that many people want." His Utopian conception of a Communist America is a little naive, and his blithe disregard for minority rights and the law of the land is sometimes disturbing...
...railroad industry, Professor Hansen states, "It is a declining industry owing to the competition of other methods of transportation. The solution of the railroad problem is not to charge higher rates but to thoroughly reorganize the capital structure. This involves the enormously difficult task of liquidation. To keep on bolstering up the top-heavy capital structure is hopeless...
...about the events of November. I said that I did. He asked me if I had talked to George Whitney about it. I said that I had. Then he mentioned the unfortunate episode of Greer [a broker who was declared mentally incompetent last year]. He said, 'It is difficult to know whom to trust...