Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dilemma of higher education can be summarized in one word--expansion. The number of students wishing to attend college will more than double by 1965. To meet their demands, colleges quite obviously must expand greatly. Presumably, the conference will seek a solution for this question, bearing in mind the possibility of federal aid or even former President Conant's suggestion of a vast junior college program. If, like the public school representatives, the delegates do propose federal support, they must decide whether the aid should go only to state schools, or to private universities as well...
Negativism, explained by Hurkan as the culmination of rationalism, is taken up in Paul Tillich's article, Beyond the Dilemma of Our Period, as the major predicament of the middle of the twentieth century. It leaves the autonomous man in the age of science, without spiritual substance. Many individuals in search for a "fountain of meaning" are led toward authoritarianism. Tillich warns against taking preliminary realities as ultimates. He offers instead the Christian's attitude of waiting...
...Vise (Fri. 9:30, NBC) makes no pretense at handling fact, nor does it seem very handy with fiction. It claims to tell stories of "people caught in the jaws of a vise, in a dilemma of their own making." Last week The Vise had a famous English actress meet a married real-estate agent in a small English town. Sample dialogue: "She: I'm in love with you. He: But you have the whole world at your feet. She: But it's you I want." She gets him. But then he gets her. It seems...
...Utopians, their cars laden "with whisky, cans and contraceptives," and left them at the end without even their illusions. After The Groves of Academe (1952), the U.S. progressive college will never be the same again; in that book Mary McCarthy (who taught at Bard and Sarah Lawrence) posed the dilemma of the liberal president who could not fire an incompetent professor because the fellow had cunningly pretended once to have been a member of the Communist Party...
...oddsmakers' dilemma will begin at 1:30 in the Stadium this afternoon. On paper, the Crimson eleven is picked to win by seven points, but everyone seems to be betting on Brown...