Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preoccupation with their own advanced theories has caused most professors to overlook the simple needs of the unenlightened undergraduate. to sweep the elouds from their lectures, the Department's top-flight men must recognize the student's dilemma through the use of various teaching methods and techniques such as understanding which park of the course proves most troublesome and anticipating any questions...
Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was well steeped in such comparisons. Last week he promised to introduce a Constitutional amendment providing for the simultaneous election of the President and both branches of Congress, for equal terms. The chances to overturn 159 years of Constitutional tradition were scarcely favorable. But the dilemma in Washington had excited new speculation about the Constitution and its rigidities...
Arthur Koestler's discussion of the dilemma of Palestine in "Thieves in the Night" continues his work of reducing political events and ideologies to personal terms through the medium of the novel...
...play is a dilemma in itself. Dealing in grotesque characters who are symbols of grotesque or obscure ideas, it poses questions far beyond the scope of the average theatregoer who comes without having road the play previously. It is the story of a man who destroys the world because he hates it and then is forced by God to create it anew in the image of his desires...
...poor voters go to the polls today they are confronted with a serious dilemma. For if they register discontent with the current domestic policy of the Truman Administration (there have been no great differences on foreign policy since 1943) they run the concurrent risk of rendering impotent the total forces of the government. The lessons of 1918, 1930 and many other mid-term contests are ample to illustrate the overall frustration that results from a division of partisan leadership between Capitol Hill and the White House. The question remains whether the unmistakable swing to the Republicans is as strong...