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Word: dilemma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This personal dilemma, reflected in his book, is the source of its greatest weakness as a novel. His characters are Koestler-controlled puppets in a grim ideological allegory which takes for granted a war between Communism and the West, preaches the unoriginal warning that to defeat Russia, the West must find a more appealing faith than Marxism. For disillusioned intellectuals of Koestler's type, democracy as a function of liberty is unintelligible, and liberty itself a hopeless unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Allegory of the '50s | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Doctor's Dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...loyal non-Catholic supporter of the Brownsville (Texas) Mercy Hospital, I bitterly resent your article, "Doctor's Dilemma" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...object to the tenor of your article which portrays Dr. Stephens being persecuted in his "dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Doctor's Dilemma" revived for me the impotent fury which always attended a recitation of similar experiences by my father, "a horse and buggy doctor" for 50 years in central Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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