Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When doctors tackle a patient with mixed-up sex, e.g., pseudohermaphroditism (TIME, Dec. 15), they are often faced with a cruel dilemma. The child is likely to be a boy whose masculinity was not evident at birth, so he has been reared as a girl. It is one thing, and fairly simple, to operate and make him what nature originally intended, but the social readjustment from girlhood to boyhood is forbiddingly difficult. The less common cases of girls mistaken for boys are just as tough...
...appeared under the elastic title, Our Country and Our Culture, in three issues of the Partisan Review last year. More apt, the new title recognizes the two foci of the symposium: the state of American society, facing the threats of mass culture and a pressure for conformity; and the dilemma of the American intellectual, seeking a place for himself in a cultural context he can no longer flee...
...movie-thriller finale, Author Liu tells how he escaped to Hong Kong. He eventually made his way to Formosa, where he wrote Out of Red China. Not every Chinese facing Liu's dilemma could have done this. Fortunately for the world's knowledge of Red China, Liu is an orphan - without a family back home to suffer for his candor...
...usually the best all-around player. He stands alone, unchallenged, with only one loss. But he isn't a smooth, poised player like Captain Pete Milton or third place Martin Hockshire. He lacks the finesse of Milton's stroke and the sharp court tactics of Hockshire. Corey explains the dilemma with "he's a fighter, with terrific power, the kind of guy who never lots...
...despite the dilemma of the gift horse's mouth and despite the advantages of a one to eleven permission on Saturdays, there are still objections which must be voiced...