Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regarding Trib Editor W. D. Maxwell's dilemma, 'why not a list of the bestsellers and a list of the books worth reading. This should make everybody happy...
Honey & Sweetness. Author Simon knows well the dilemma that France and the West face-that the Communist intelligentsia "approve any crime, if the infallibility of the Red Pope is in question," while they eagerly denounce the West's slightest misdemeanor. In this situation, a counterstrategy is hard to find. In the end, the author, like his hero, decides that the highest morality is the individual's. But if all soldiers become Larsans, there would be no armies. His act of conscience is understandable and moving, but it offers no real answer to the problem buried...
...solved the dilemma he had talked himself into. As he put it with inadvertent candor: "I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people...
...American turned last week-to his television set, his newspaper, his favorite bartender or to his wife-he could get an argument. The subject of controversy: Fidel Castro's idea of accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S. dilemma: a strong sense of responsibility for the lives of the men captured in the U.S.-sponsored attack as balanced against a real repugnance for paying ransom money to such a tinhorn Commie as Fidel Castro...
...Trouble in Swanson's Alley," written by a student at Rindge Technical High School, depicted the moral dilemma of two gangs, who were committed to fighting each other but weary of battle. "What I was trying to show," author Frank "Junior" Dempsey told a reviewer, "is how teen-agers are fixing their own problems up. You see, a lot of people would think that Pete--he's the one who squeals to the other gang to stop the rumble--well, a lot of people would think he's a fink. But he's only trying to help them...