Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point out that Hindus find the Biblical concept of God as a vengeful, peeking, bumbling fellow who botched his job so badly that he created man imperfect, then cursed the whole race of man for the same imperfection, and could find no better way out of the dilemma than to allow his "son" to die a tortured death even more absurd...
...cover picture of Senator Lyndon Johnson, I thought it in good taste to thus pay tribute to a good loser. A few hours later, Johnson's V.P. nomination made it appear that TIME must use a crystal ball to decide such matters. This brought home to me the dilemma that must face the editor in choosing the cover picture for an edition that must roll off the press before the nomination and reach the newsstands after the choice has been made. Senator Johnson's cover picture uniquely demonstrates TIME'S ability to appear current no matter which...
...Lost Weekend desperately trying to hock his typewriter to buy booze and finding the New York pawnshops closed; the shops are owned by Jews, and they are closed because it is Yom Kippur, the most important of Jewish holidays. This novel presents a similar but even more poignant dilemma. The heroine's older sister has got herself pregnant by her boss, a married man; she tries desperately to cash a check for an abortion, but finds she cannot because Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just closed the banks...
...some reason, the only way out of this dilemma seems to be suicide, but before the girl jumps out of a window, she manages to spread the impression that the villain was not her boss, but a footloose social worker named Benjamin Franklin Ivey. The preposterous melodrama that hinges on this case of mistaken paternity is remotely interesting only because perennially bestselling Author Weidman (I Can Get It for You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp) has fashioned Ben Ivey in the unmistakable outer image of Harry Hopkins, that famed, dark-grey eminence of the New Deal...
...Europe, capitalism has stubbornly refused to destroy itself, and Europe's Socialists have found themselves increasingly discredited in a world they never made or even allowed for. Last week Socialists in two major countries reacted in opposite directions to their common dilemma...