Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Undergraduate Athletic Council came through with a perfect solution to the general dilemma about swimming letters. The Council recommended that even if a swimmer never placed against Yale, he could still get his Major H by simply participating in two meets with the Elis. The biggest difficulty with the present system of awarding a Major H only to those who place in that one letter meet is that too much importance is attached to Yale's strength in any one year...
...transferring this doleful drama to film, the producers have also transferred (without improving) the novel's main dilemma. Boiled down it is: how to make convincing the relationship between a father, who behaves like a doting old maid, and a son, who is a little too bad to be true...
Perhaps the Allies would come anyhow. A quick peace was Sweden's only hope of escape from the dilemma...
...snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work out of his dilemma on his own. Result: by deftly making youth's callow crisis also a crisis of adult intelligence, Director Louis King and Producer Stuart Walker (who produced the 1918 stage version of Seventeen) have made one of the few recent Hollywood remakes worth remaking...
...attacked it in her first play, she seemed tame as tea and weak as water. A dull, dawdling tale of refugee theatre folk in Manhattan at the time of Anschluss (Co-Playwright Kortner is himself a refugee actor). Another Sun told of their hopes & fears and of the dilemma of the most famous of them, who, unable to get work in the U. S., is tempted to seize the olive branch held out to him by the Reich...