Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Msgr. Sheen has brought forth a deeper meaning beyond the material security of peace of mind . . . Dr. Chao has revealed with peculiar penetration the dilemma of :.ll religion faced with the greatest challenge to civilization in a thousand years...
...movie rises to a high level of political drama in its presentation of life under tyranny, and the problems of the revolutionaries. Scenes showing elder statesmen forced to follow the dictator's will, and the dilemma of the underground in deciding whether its ends justify killing innocent people, are presented with great power. But these high points are not frequent enough to make "We Were Strangers" the artistically fine movie it tries to be. The film lacks any real characterizations, concentrating on its plot. This ends in an ironical twist which is not handled smoothly enough to be completely effective...
...might join the Nazi or Communist Party in protest against social injustices; once in, the individual has little voice in the organization, which pursues policies of its own, often diametrically opposed to what the individual wanted in the first place. This process, said Golden, "creates a trap." Unless this dilemma can be resolved, the whole fiber of human society is endangered...
...hypothetical animal, credited to 14th Century French Philosopher Jean Buridan (and others), which suffered from the hypothetical dilemma of perfectly balanced but conflicting desires for two different piles of hay. Hypothetically, he starved to death...
...story, which happily bears no resemblance to the 1922 script, concerns three males. On the eve of his last voyage, old Captain Joy (Lionel Barrymore), New Bedford's No. 1 whaler, faces a dilemma. Should he once again take along his orphaned, sea-struck grandson (Dean Stockwell) or leave him ashore to catch up on his book learnin'? In Boston-trained Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) he finds a plot-making compromise. Lunceford, he figures, has enough schooling to keep both a ship and Little Jed's education afloat. After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them...