Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging from the brotherhood of man through the value of moderation to the evils of mechanized civilization, have a profound importance. The first concern of the stage, however, is human personality and not abstract philosophy. Philosophical ideas get a valid dramatic statement only so long as they illuminate some dilemma in which the people on stage find themselves. But the important characters in Shangri-La have no real problem since their story turns on accidents over which they have no control. As a result, their airy musings, based on nothing more solid than some vague discontent, are irrelevant, obvious...
...home from the Bermuda Conference in 1953, President Eisenhower delivered before the U.N. a speech that electrified the world. The President pledged the U.S. "to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life." His specific proposal: the big powers should "begin now and continue to make joint contributions from their stockpiles of normal uranium and fissionable materials to an international atomic- energy agency . . . under the aegis...
This amazing success of the House Groups, which try to appeal to the same audiences as does the HDC, and which have consistently produced high quality performances, has presented theatre people with a dilemma. On one hand they recognize the "present prosperity" of drama, but on the other hand they believe Harvard must have its own University Theatre...
...Chicago publish nothing about a tense race situation during its "incipient" stage; if a riot actually breaks out, they report it, but in the past tense as if it had already blown over, even if it should still be raging. Concludes Hall: "The race issue is not a Southern dilemma but a national problem. Discrimination is discrimination everywhere, not just when it happens under a Southern magnolia...
More Than Diplomats. Thus, cleverly, Santha Rama Rau puts in a novelist's terms an Indian psychological dilemma, which in the terms and the person of Nehru irritates the West: just as the British were disliked more for their law and the incorruptibility of their lawgivers rather than for their conquest, so Americans seem to be disliked and resented for their quixotic good will rather than their "dollar imperialism." In the presence of envy, gratitude is impossible...