Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more concentrated at the bottom of the 'agricultural ladder' than are whites... The income of the average Negro family at any given level of ownership or tenancy is always much lower than the income of the corresponding average white family." (Rose, op. cit. See also G. Myrdal, An American Dilemma-1950; R. Sterner, The Negro's Share...
...greatest dilemma of 16 Dunster Street is the presence in the same building of both the Russian Research Center and the Regional Program on the Soviet Union. Both are outstanding educational units, but the former is made up of a mature scholars who work on individual research projects. In the Center are such men as Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and an expert on the workings of the modern Russian state. Most of these scholars have at least a Ph.D. and have already published works of note...
...romantic hero, Colonel Fairfax, Jerry Brown was faced with the dilemma which occurs in G. and S.--that the romantic hero tends towards insipidity compared with the comic hero, who always holds the audience's primary interest. Brown overcame this dilemma partially by playing the role for laughs in a rather moonstruck, Russel Nype manner...
Both Judge Tamm in the Covert case and the Supreme Court in its Toth decision suggested a possible solution to the dilemma. The Congress, they said, could enact legislation giving the U.S. civil courts jurisdiction over certain civilians abroad who are exempted, by treaty or otherwise, from the jurisdiction of local courts. As a Defense Department spokesman said last week, in referring to the armed forces dependents and employees overseas: "They are U.S. citizens and we cannot leave them free to go their merry way with no accountability. We want all our people accountable somewhere...
...Everything Will Be All Right." The dilemma of the white American, as Author Baldwin sees it, is that he is caught between a West European legacy of white supremacy and the democratic ideal of equality and brotherhood. Unfortunately, the love of justice rarely bridges the absence of love. For his part, the Negro "hates and fears" the white man, but he cannot retreat to his African heritage, which was severed at the auction block; he can only find his identity within "the cage of reality" of the American scene...