Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revised admissions policy has been put forward as the cure for this part of the dilemma. If alumni really scoured the country for "scholar-athletes," it is argued, Harvard could field a respectable football team each year without resorting to paying players or lowering its academic standards. But this sort of program must be carefully watched. Attempts to get more good all-round students to apply to Harvard and thus broaden the base from which the admissions committee can choose are ipso facto desirable. But misdirected efforts which unbalanced this broad base in favor of football players or any other...
...special committee of the City Council will meet Thursday with Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the Administrative Vice-President in an attempt to solve the University parking dilemma. Meanwhile, Cambridge police intensified their campaign against illegal parkers by issuing 600 summonses to student parkers within the last six days...
...human beings of sensitivity you must also realize the price that must be paid by the large university for a winning ball club. Sometimes it is simply no more nor less than academic integrity. Quite an exacting price. So there you sit: impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Be honest, excite your students and agitate for good football. Pay the knowing tribute. Or, treat the Saturday efforts completely realistically, tell the students to bring a bottle to the field and at least have a good drunk to show for their Saturday afternoon. Or, be aloof, forget the game...
...Dilemma. Prophet Mann is lugubrious, but Novelist Mann is at his most urbane. He still writes with the literary craft of a master, and this time he happily avoids the philosophical asides that have cumbered earlier books. With its playfully archaic style and ironic tone, The Holy Sinner reads like a book written simply for the pleasure of telling a good story...
Mann leads his characters through the guilty old dilemma. Wiligis and Sibylla, twin children of the Duke of Flauadres and Artoys, fall into incestuous love. When a child is conceived, guilty Wiligis goes off to die on a pilgrimage, while Sibylla penitently vows never to marry. When little Gregorius is born, he is cast adrift in a little boat, with a note that tells his story but not his identity. Gregorius is saved by fishermen and grows up in a monastery. In due time, of course, he goes out in the world to unravel his origin-and meets and marries...