Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the Mayor's first dilemma: he can undoubtedly use his prestige and influence to move the meager poverty funds still available into any of a number of directions. But funds are very limited--and has no way to get resources on the scale needed...
Like so many rock troubadours, S. & G. see pain in the affluent society-in alienation, lack of communication, insincerity, mindless cocktail-hour chatter-but they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays...
Ultimate Quest. Here is the recurring dilemma that Agnon never quite resolves in his stories. His scholar-heroes dream of locking themselves up with some sanctified absolute discipline that will freeze change and make even time stand still. Yet, like the guest, they feel disturbing tugs toward the world outside-toward the everyday pleasures of walking in the forest or smiling once more at Rachel, the hotel-keeper's daughter. It is as if what keeps security in also keeps the very flavor of life out. And so, at the moment they discover their sanctuary, Agnon's characters...
KUBRICK'S dilemma in terms of satisfying an audience is that his best work in 2001 is plotless slow-paced material, an always successful creation of often ritualistic behavior of apes, men, and machines with whom we are totally unfamiliar. In the longer version, the opening of Astronaut Poole's (Gary Lockwood) pod scene is shot identically to the preceding pod scene with Astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea), stressing standardized operational method by duplicating camera setups. This laborious preparation may appear initially repetitive until Poole's computer-controlled pod turns on him and murders him in space, thus justifying the prior...
...squeeze because they depend on the U.S. and other rich nations for 20% of their capital, need hard currencies to buy machines and other capital to build schools, low-cost housing, telephone systems, roads and other all-important "infrastructures" that are slow to show profits. The dilemma: countries often need infrastructure to attract capital, but cannot develop it without large amounts of capital...