Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carole Lombard is pretty well preserved, and she is fairly diverting when violently refusing to be one of the buttons pressed by her omnipotent, omnipresent lover (Preston Foster). There are also germs of amusement in her dilemma when she has to choose between submission to her presumptuous lover (the same Mr. Foster), smugly on- sconced in his steam-yacht; and death by drowning with her wine-soaked, brine-soaked, luke-warm sweetheart (Ceasar Romero) in his tiny, tossing sloop. But the finale falls flat once again. Preston and Carole are married while conducting a licentious altercation. Pathe news catches...
...dilemma Dr. Hanfstaengl finds himself in looks curiously like another concoction for publicity purposes. To make an issue of President Conant's accepting the reunion donation of the Class of 1909, to which the Nazi press chief had contributed, is mercly an attempt to fight back at Harvard for its refusal to accept his scholarship to the University of Munich. The class donation was a completely impersonal affair as far as President Conant was concerned, and the decision as to who was to contribute to it was up to the Class of 1909 alone. By no stretch of the imagination...
...trouble is that classwork is not education. A conscientious student, interested in satisfying the academic world's criterion of success good grades--while getting an education is in a dilemma. He drives himself through uninteresting courses hunting prerequisites, foregoes outside-of-class activities, and interprets or thinks little because thinking wastes college time...
...have realized how effectively the principal actor can tell about himself in the third person. Biographies, even though fictitious, seem to lack vitality and autobiographies, when the narrator is of little consequence in world affairs, are invariably priggish. Percy Marks has happily hit upon a working solution of this dilemma in "A Tree Grown Straight" and, incidentally, has written the best analysis of the problems of our generation...
...fact Socialist Blum was so much in the hair of Premier Albert Sarraut that the Paris topical weekly Aux Ecoutes cartooned the Premier as a dog covered with fleas, each flea having the face of Léon Blum (see cut, p. 19). Exclaimed Aux Ecoutes, accurately reflecting the dilemma in which French politicians found themselves last week: "Abominable though the Soviet regime is-so abominable that only the Hitler regime appears equally abominable-we think the pact must be ratified. ... In 1914, but for our alliance with Russia, we should have been vanquished...