Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transcend self. "We possess nothing in this world-for chance may deprive us of everything-except the power to say 'I.' It is that which has to be offered up to God, that is to say, destroyed." In common with other mystics, Simone Weil skirts the dilemma of how a totally effaced self can remain sentient enough to experience the ineffable joy of its oneness with God, in the rare event that it should be achieved. Simone Weil's own most telling religious experience: "a presence more personal, more certain, more real, than that of a human...
...Moscow as to what the United States "may or may not do," Brzezinski refused to comment on the Administration's foreign policy; "I don't think it exists," he explained. Zygmunt G. Gasiorowski, research fellow in the Russian Center, agreed that "American foreign policy is in a most difficult dilemma...
Perhaps the safest course, however, was taken by the bookie who rated the teams even. For if the oddsmakers' dilemma means anything, it is that the outcome of today's game rests in several unknown quantities...
...Advantage of Bigness. In greater or lesser degree, most of the nations ot Western Europe have faced the same economic dilemma as Britain, and for years farsighted Europeans (and Americans) have been arguing that the answer lies in a common West European market. A common market would allow each of the member nations to specialize in the goods that it produces best. If tariffs were abolished, for example. Britain's camera manufacturers might well be swept away in a flood ot superior German-made Leicas and Rollei-flexes (now subject in Britain to 50% ad valorem duty...
...part of football, the athletic directors are very concerned about the size of the crowd each Saturday afternoon. The heavy rains last fall cut quite deeply into the pockets of certain schools, and this year, all the staffs are praying for good weather. What is needed to solve this dilemma is an endowment for each school to absorb the costs of the athletic program, so that success need not be measured in ticket sales...