Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps if Mr. Kintner spent less time crouching before sponsors, he might not "find it difficult to be philosophical." Possibly he would discover a first principle to give desperately needed direction and purpose to the headless monster...
...Diahann (pronounced Diane) Carroll has given a surprising amount of thought to what her public-private image should be. "The difficult, dangerous thing for a performer," she says, "is deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted...
...once again, with the help of a good cast, achieved his sharp little vignettes, his touching, muffled cries and lonely moments. In the mother he has created an interesting variation on a type, and in mother and son he has clearly sought to probe one of the most difficult and tangled of human relationships. That he has not done so seems due partly to method and partly to mood. The dancer's role, whatever its own interest or its catalyst value, somehow obstructs the son and mother story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short play, Inge...
Last week another small step was taken. It was not even a difficult one, yet neither was it a totally insignificant one. By agreeing to a conference of experts on the problem of detecting underground explosions the Russians gave definite indication that they do desire a treaty permanently halting nuclear tests...
...visit to the College--for a week before and a month after spring vacation--Kennan will live in one of the Houses. Although Kennan said yesterday that he hoped to stay at several Houses "in rotation," Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, said this would be difficult as "We couldn't very well shuttle him around every three days." Kennan said he is "very interested in meeting undergraduates," and Gilmore promised yesterday that various Houses will be able to have Kennan for dinner and evening meetings...