Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hence Johnson's dilemma: a pause would become possible only if he were to go ahead on the basis of what he once considered insufficient evidence of a favorable response-namely, the fighting lull and veiled assurances from Hanoi's agents that the U.S. was not being lured into a trap...
...dilemma of the nonvoters is suggested by Eugene McCarthy's awkward behavior these days. After the Democratic convention, he declared in Biblical tones: "We will proceed as a Government in exile, and as a people in exile." The result has certainly been confusing. In New York, McCarthy joined a successful lawsuit to have his name removed from the ballot, thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California...
Actually, the voter's dilemma tends to be exaggerated by the current hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing...
...solution to the dilemma has finally appeared. Several piano companies, notably Wurlitzer, Baldwin and the CBS subsidiary Fender Rhodes, have developed electronic piano laboratories in which as many as 24 students, each with a piano, can be taught at the same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when...
Muriel Spark's novels are somewhat predictable in form, but they'are always brief, funny, shrewd and a little daft. Usually, she takes a group of similar people-bachelors, schoolgirls, residents of a hamlet-and throws them into a common dilemma. The Public Image departs from that pattern...