Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry thirty thousand passengers in, out, and through the dilemma. A paltry nine thousand scholars wander and mill about for eight hours a day. Then there's the pleasure traffic, trolleys, trucks and taxis. Thus the problem centers around two cureable factors--the great number of busses and the great space absorbed by the subway kiosk in the middle...
Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash...
...marriage and security. Then Wynn Stratford VI, remarried but disillusioned, asks her to come back to him. Her heart says "yes" but her head says "no," and the stream of consciousness technique by which the story is told in the first person gives surprisingly strong dramatic punch to this dilemma. This nigh-to-perfect filming of a fine novel should not be missed, but don't go at all unless you can come in at the beginning. The picture is so well constructed that missing even a few of the opening scenes spoils the whole effect...
John McL, Clark, of the National Defense Council, Latin American Relations Office, will give a lecture on "The Good Neighbor Dilemma" at 8 o'clock tonight at the Pan American Forum of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Brattle Hall...
Soon R. K. O. officials decided to release the picture in February anyway. Of course, there was the question of a libel action. Would Publisher Hearst sue? Valhallan silence gripped the crags of San Simeon. For Publisher Hearst's dilemma, if he insisted on publicly pointing out the similarities between himself and Citizen Kane, was acute. In any case, R. K. O. lawyers decided that Hearst had no case. More probably, it was rumored, Director Welles would give Publisher Hearst a private preview, make necessary adjustments. Seldom in Hollywood history had there been such a prospective buildup. Wiseacres shook...