Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PARIS, April 28--Christian A. Herter flew into Paris today to help tie up a Western package plan for solving the Berlin crisis and the problem of unification...
Referring to the possibility that the American Friends Service Committee take over the job of providing a central listing, Mrs. Nancy St. John, community relations secretary of the Cambridge AFSC, said that the committee will tackle the problem only if existing housing agencies request...
There have been no comparable flare-ups since, but the problem remains and has how taken a new turn. Last week, for instance, the newly formed Uganda National Movement had a boycott going of all non-African shops, the purpose being to "drive the Asians into the large towns. After that we shall put pressure on them there too." Long snubbed by the whites, the Asians now find themselves in danger from the blacks, and few can decide to which side...
Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...Shame, reaches toward the superb level of its predecessor Rashomon. Dealing with the highly controversial issue of legalized prostitution, it does not bypass cliches ("Does an unnecessary business last so long?"), nor does it resist the opportunity to moralize. Nevertheless cliches and moralizing inherently attach themselves to the problem, which Street of Shame approaches warily and with artistic detachment...