Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist who has encompassed and canned the whole realm of human experience. The opposing school brands him as ridiculously undisciplined, wordy, extravagant and completely adolescent in tone and approach. His voluminous correspondence, the greater part of which is presented in the present Scribners tome, does little to illuminate this dilemma, if indeed an artist's private life is really relevant in interpreting...
...ready and human a sympathy with the causes he is supposed to keep an eye on. Switzerland's Attorney General René Dubois, who personally operated the country's efficient 40-man counterintelligence organization, could not help but feel for France in her North African dilemma. A modest, hard-working tracker of spies, 48-year-old René Dubois, born on the French side of Switzerland and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, spoke with impatience of the Arab political leaders who visited, or lived, in neutral Switzerland: "They give me a lot of trouble...
...years, he argues that it is "not the one-sidedness of the monopoly newspaper that contains the greatest threat to local democracy now, but its circumspect neutrality in many matters where the clash of opinion is desirable." Most newspapers' sins of omission* and commission spring from an economic dilemma: they are torn between the journalistic duty to inform and the competitive need to entertain mass audiences which have little interest in serious news. The modern newspaper editor, says Williams, is "a blood brother to Barnum"; his paper "a three-ring circus, daily presenting to its patrons the greatest show...
EVERY Israeli artist faces an age-old dilemma...
...York it's either 8:30 or 8:40. In Cambridge it's usually 8:30, but at the Peabody Playhouse the curtain is at 8 p.m. The HDC's Doctor's Dilemma is at the Playhouse...