Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political life. Believing that feelings count more than facts, intuition more than ideas, some of these students move into a neighborhood law office or legal defender's office--frequently to discover what Peace Corps Volunteers and VISTA workers also have found, namely, that to help people is not the easiest thing in the world, but one of the most difficult, and that poor people of whatever race are especially suspicious and are often dishonest. Some of these students whose commitment to justice and to social change is not immoderate may conclude that the problems of the rich are after...
...intermarriage with Peggy and Guy, found them well aware of the risks. As to their tender ages, Napier said: "Peggy, for her years, is amazing. She has a kind of maturity, a solidity, going way beyond her years. And Guy, he's one of the loosest, calmest, easiest fellows -of any race." Guy's mother concurs...
...very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
...takes only one season for the summer commuter to learn to book plane flights months in advance. The easiest way for Chicago businessmen to reach the luxurious lakeside summer colony of Charlevoix, Mich., is via a 250-mile flight to Traverse City, followed by a 15-minute small-plane hop to the final destination. But what happens when the airline is booked? Those left in the lurch must drive north to Milwaukee, where they catch a ferry to Ludington, Mich., a trip that takes six hours-then drive 150 miles to Charlevoix...
PROKOFIEV: WAR AND PEACE (3 LPs; Heliodor). Tolstoy's epic is not the easiest assignment in operatic composing, but by concentrating on the love story of Prince Andrei and Natasha, and Kuturov's defeat of Napoleon, Prokofiev has done a surprisingly effective job. Instead of beginning with a big party scene, he shrewdly chooses a tender picture of longing and rebirth when Andrei hears Natasha and Sonya on their balcony. The composer has written the girls a soprano duet that recalls Strauss's lyricism. Here and elsewhere, the voices of Radmilla Vasovic Bokacevic and Biserka Cvejic...