Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confidence and prosperity are the chicken-&-egg of economics. Does confidence turn the wheels, or do turning wheels churn up confidence? A.D. 1940 settled the second half of this dilemma: they don't necessarily. There never was a year in which Business had less confidence, or in which industry moved faster...
...danger the U. S. faces. Lewis W. Douglas of Mutual Life Insurance Co. gave them the interventionist view ("no compromise with oppression, and no covenant with tyranny"), was politely applauded. Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood argued isolationism, received a spontaneous ovation. As though to duck the dilemma, most speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column. In a round table that touched on plant capacity...
This brings us to the rest of the magazine which seems to convey so well the modern dilemma of masses of critical work as opposed to a few scraps of creative writing. But seriously, there is a mass of critical material here, some good and the other unnecessary. It is true, however, that the material does satisfy different appetities. First of all any one who wants to be inspired short and, though redundant in part, Statements about Stevens. They are short and though redundant in part, sum up fairly well...
What Next? The Congress was not quite in the dilemma of the Prohibition Party after the adoption of the 18th Amendment: What to fight for? But it faced a comparable problem of having achieved its obvious ends and of trying to find out the best uses of its power. In 1848, Elizabeth Stanton called a convention of woman's-rights seekers that adopted a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence: "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment...
Oliver Wiswell is also contemporary. The tragic dilemma of Oliver Wiswell and the tories is a central tragedy of our time. They learn what modern exiles have to learn: 1) that decency, thrift, sobriety, intelligence have no value in a civil war; 2) that there is no hope for the vanquished in a social revolution except to start life over again in a new country. Says Author Roberts through the mouth of troubled Oliver Wiswell: "God grant to all peoples a Wilderness Trail at whose end they can find surcease from demagogues, interference, greed, intolerance and politicians...