Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...addition to conducting, Joey plays half a dozen instruments, has written one symphony, eleven sonatinas, two sonatas, two piano concertos, two overtures, a tone poem, a rondo and a rhapsody. His problem just now is to determine whether he wants to be a composer, a conductor or a concert pianist. "Well," says Papa Alfidi calmly, "look at Lenny Bernstein. What...
Grey Market. What follows is a kind of social-consciousness thriller. Author Keith Wheeler, a LIFE associate editor, feelingly probes the grey market in interracial ethics. Like most topical problem novels, Peaceable Lane, a December Book-of-the-Month choice, is on somewhat distant terms with literature, and Breathlessly intimate with today's headlines. Written with manifest good will, the novel unfortunately discriminates against character development in favor of cliches and plot-conditioned responses. But if the people are not quite real, their dilemma...
...whorehouses, left home at 15 and drifted from one menial job to another until he turned to writing "because I was not prepared to be anything else." A depression-era Communist who broke with the party in the 1940s, Wright took the position: "In America there is no Negro problem but a white problem. Any time the white wants to change it, it will be solved. The Negro is powerless...
...paramount problem for the new Administration, Mrs. Roosevelt observed, is Cuban situation and, for that matter, entire Latin American area. "It is defectly understandable why the Cubans hostile," she said, "for we have suped a government which clearly signi oppression to the people...
...most African nations, the personnel problem at the secondary school level is critical, Berg added. The youth corps must try to hit specifically at this problem and should not become a "massive work camp" for idealistic Americans...