Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Critic Lewis Gannett, emerging from the Fair: "Not all the keen wits of all the 110 publishers frantically pursuing manuscripts can discover 10,000 books worth printing in one year. . . ." In bringing out books they know they cannot sell profitably, publishers have likened their dilemma to that of a man shoveling on a dying fire coal that he knows contains a lot of slate. If he stops shoveling, the fire will go out; if he keeps on, the slate may smother it. Only one book in ten sells 20,000 copies, only six novels in ten sell...
...thoughts in his mind assembled in one spiritual ball reverberating with excited words: he would be obliged to take one girl and two relatives to a game which he wished fervently he could watch alone. Contemplating a sudden change of name, or flight, or amuesia anything to escape his dilemma, anything to be alone, the Vagabond went to the H.A.A. and applied for four tickets...
...first step in solving the dilemma, the management announced that the 72 men who had received a grade of 72 or below in a scale ranging from 70 to 82 should not expect to sing in any concert this year. It was hinted that this might be the initial measure toward the eventual separation of the club into upper and lower groups...
...fighting, cooing, unfailingly endearing intimacy of Lunt-Fontanne on-stage relations, their expert charm. The Guild paired them in Arms and the Man, The Goat Song, At Mrs. Beam's, Pygmalion, Juarez and Maximilian. In 1927 they did The Brothers Karamazov, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated. They played Caprice in Manhattan and London, returned to Manhattan for Meteor, did Maxwell Anderson's turgid Elizabeth the Queen, then swung into...
...Japan's Dilemma in China" will be the subject of a talk to be given by John K. Fairbank, instructor of History, in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7 o'clock tonight. The talk will be the first in a series of five Friday evening discussion groups sponsored by the Freshman unit of the Student Union and featuring remarks on current history by members of the faculty...