Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, where he had futilely opposed John J. Bennett in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, the President found himself in a dilemma. Now that primary bygones were bygones, Franklin Roosevelt desperately wanted Democrat Bennett to win over Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Three weeks ago, he formally plumped for Bennett's election. But Republican Dewey still led in the straw polls, Democrat Bennett was a poor second; and the American Labor Party, formerly a boon to the New Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett...
...three U.S. clicks in London, one-The Man Who Came to Dinner-is farce, but Claudia is semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill, a Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a smash, plans to revive Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love, soon. Emlyn Williams will revive Turgenev's A Month...
...been called up, industrially shifted and concentrated, evacuated, blitzed out of old addresses. Most new voters had never been registered at all. An election would divert precious energy from the war effort, create bitterness which might destroy national unity. It would not solve Britain's standing political dilemma, succinctly expressed by the sober weekly Economist...
...Joad can no longer believe this because "the evil in the world today is too widespread and obtrusive ... to enable us to take any longer so easy a view of its nature and origin. . . ." The end of Joad's confession is an earnest statement of his personal dilemma and that of others like him: "It is in no feeling of gladness that I thus set about revising my picture of the universe. On the contrary, I have the sense of resuming with the greatest alarm and dismay a burden which in the first flush of my agnostical freedom...
With the majority of Juniors becoming Seniors in September and graduating in May, the proposed Junior-Senior combination album provides an excellent solution to an unpleasant dilemma. Containing a comprehensive survey of university activities together with biographies and pictures of both classes, the expanded album will give '44 a certain class book, whose publication next May would be imperiled in many ways...