Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing group of articulate and thoughtful observers holds that if the adoption of this difficult and more positive approach to our present global dilemma is dependent on the workings of the democratic process in America and elsewhere, we must despair of it. The inherent characteristics of democratic government, they insist, make it impossible for nations so governed to choose the hard course. Those in power, in order to maintain their positions, must continuously cater to the domestic interests and whims of a fragile and shifting numerical majority. Inevitably these interests, even in critical periods such as this, will reflect. short...
...cynical advisers tell us that this is obvious and that any cooperation on our part can only lead to disillusionment and regret. But look at the other horn of the dilemma. It is clear that since the Nov. 10, 1954 decree by Khrushchev, outlining the new party line on religion, the churches in Russia are going to be free to establish ecclesiastical ties with other churches in the East and West, as they have not been since...
...spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever's disenchanted Upper East Side Manhattanites and Salinger's poor little rich boys with fractured psyches. The Presence of Grace is really about the absence of love...
...should continue its own aid program and at the same time respond to Asian demands for less direct aid, this country is seemingly faced with a dilemma. The dilemma can be resolved, however, by increasing present minute contributions to the U.N. and Colombo Plan and still retaining direct aid. The three paralled programs are not fundamentally at odds, and by partially satisfying Asian demands with increased international funds, the U.S. will gain more respect than it would by stubbornly emphasizing the principle of bi-lateral...
...conference evolves from a survey meeting held last year, convened by Governor Christian A. Herter '15, on "Moral Standards of the Nation." It will consider "the new Leisure: a Moral Dilemma...