Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your admirable Essay, 'The Dilemma of Black Studies" [May 2] ignored, curiously, the one element of black culture where the record of black accomplishment is not only glorious but also widely recognized and widely acclaimed: music. It is, moreover, the one area where black culture has proved both irresistibly attractive and easily accessible to whites. "Jazz," writes Gilbert Chase, "may be regarded as our most original and far-reaching contribution to the world's music...
Notch by Notch. Javits' criticism may be overly severe, as well as premature. Nixon's dilemma is that he must do his best to maintain a credible bargaining position in Paris while assuaging the doves at home. No one can predict whether or when a settlement will be achieved, but the President meanwhile has been edging toward a reduction of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. The first pullback might take place this summer, even if there is no reciprocity on the other side. Whatever else it might accomplish, a reduction in the American troop level-perhaps including some...
Hussein's dilemma is a vivid lesson to any country that might let the fedayeen operate within its borders. Nonetheless, the most peaceable Arab land of all, Lebanon, is being inexorably drawn toward the same fate. Three weeks ago, its government resigned in the wake of riots by Palestinians and students demanding freedom of action for the fedayeen. Last week Lebanon was still without a government, as its politicians vainly sought a compromise that would, in the words of President Charles Helou, allow Lebanon to "support this just struggle within our sovereignty and integrity"?in other words, without incurring...
...possible," realizing that "people like to escape in beauty, and art, and space." Readers responded so well that LIFE'S circulation grew from 6,888,000 to 8,500,000 (with an assist from subscribers who had switched from the Saturday Evening Post). LIFE, however, shares the dilemma of all mass-circulation magazines these days: production costs are so immense that advertising revenues-which for LIFE last year totaled $153,900,000 -produce only slim profit margins...
...take toward organ transplants? Although tradition forbids the desecration of the Moslem dead, the Kuala Lumpur conference decided that, since Islamic law also holds that life must be preserved if at all possible, human transplants are a legitimate life-saving tool. The meeting dealt similarly with a rather improbable dilemma involving dietary law. Lost in the desert and near starvation, a devout Moslem is suddenly confronted by two bits of unexpected sustenance: a stray piece of pork and some nonforbidden food in the hands of a traveler. Which should he take? He could not snatch the other...