Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...British friends will join us in that ... If any appeasement is needed, I would say that the British could make a very excellent gesture by offering Hong Kong to the Communists . . . I've been an interventionist for the last 20 years, but I think it will be very difficult to commit the U.S. to the land defense of continental Europe unless the other nations help us in the Far East...
...story for Everest climbers. "The south face," said their report, "presented much greater climbing difficulties than the north side. The southern face is precipitous and broken by long and intricate ridges, which would be technically difficult and dangerous. The south face may well be impossible, and we could see no practicable climbing route...
...judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...
Italian novels were still being imported, but in diminishing number and quality. Best of a thin lot was Alberto Moravia's Two Adolescents, two fine, perfectly turned long stories about difficult boyhood. Worthy but dull, at least in translation, was Riccardo Bacchelli's ambitious, much-praised historical novel, The Mill...
...Woman of Means, Peter Taylor wrote a mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize...