Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division of the News Department also features interesting personalities on KALEIDOSCOPE, heard Sundays at 3 p.m. In the near future KALEIDOSCOPE will present tape recordings of University Professor Paul J. Tillich speaking on "Is There a Real Religious Revival?" and Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) lecturing on "The Russian Dilemma." This Sunday, March 24, the program will present a complete rebroadcast of the Harvard Invitational Forensic Tournament...
...Doctor's Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw takes some roundhouse swings at the medical profession. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of the play makes his blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play...
...these performances fail to be consistently effective, the fault is partly that of the director, Richard Smithies. While inventive enough in his staging, Smithies sometimes lets the pace of the production lag. But then, The Doctor's Dilemma contains some stretches which would strain the abilities of any drama group...
...administrators of New York City's five public colleges continually straddle an uneasy dilemma. In prohibiting John Gates, Daily Worker editor from speaking at their schools, they were bowing to metropolitan New York's indignant public opinion. And now the academics are waving the liberal flag, pulling out their J.S. Mill, and causing New Yorkers, and the college administrators, to feel uncomfortable...
Tranquility is not the answer to the modern dilemma; it is a refusal to face the problem. Modern man will find satisfaction only when he realizes he is bound up with others, directed towards the future, grounded in dynamic possibility rather than in static aloofness...