Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found a cooperative radio station in Washington, devoted to the public interest and freed from the lone motive of profit of the ordinary out-let or, on the other hand, the possibly prejudiced orientation of the labor-owned stations springing up. Here is one method applicable to the entangled dilemma of journalism--although a new newspaper's circulation battle is admittedly far more critical than a young radio station's early months. Labor unions might well take the initiative in such projects without necessarily assuming a dominant role, Cooperative civic action of this sort in promising localities would both trailblazer...
Long before the end, readers may ask themselves the same question. The Hollow of the Wave fails to explain the social dilemma of its drifting characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...
Here to Jordan's dilemma: with the roughest part of his schedule coming up shortly after the spring team begins he must produce men to wrestle at 165 and 155--men who will go into the second half of the schedule without the experience of the first half behind them...
Most of the ten lacked both the authority of tradition and the excitement of artistic rebellion. That was not too surprising. The chairman of the jury had lucidly described the sculptors' dilemma in a letter sent to each of them before they began work. "I would like to urge you to guide and instruct," he wrote, "to lead strongly in these artistic matters. But it is obvious, I feel, that the beneficial effect of your leadership will be much greater if the sculptural image which we offer is not too much of a jolt...
...that Republican leaders deemed a campaign unnecessary, thought they would lose less votes by avoiding commitments than they would attract by lavish promises. The President's margin of victory largely represents stay-at-home Republicans, who, confronted with a choice between no program and the Truman deal, avoided the dilemma by voting for neither...