Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no cheap or easy way for America to solve its deficits dilemma. No matter how it tinkers with the golden rules, it ultimately will have to achieve what the bankers call equilibrium-which is to say, a surplus or deficit of not much more than $1 billion yearly. As soon as it does that, the gold problem will disappear. "Then," says Germany's top banker, Emminger, "the U.S. can do whatever it wishes about the gold price. Then everyone, or almost everyone, will be quite content to hold onto his dollars. There is no advantage in holding...
...will present anti-Johnson forces with an awkward dilemma. They will want to stress their unity with the nation's Negroes. But the primary concern of the Alabama and Mississippi Negroes coming to Chicago will not be to end the war or to dump Johnson. They will support Johnson, they will be repeating again and again that they support him, and they will be doing everything in their power to get inside the convention hall in order to cast ballots...
...caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled love for Marianna and his yearning for the uncomplicated youth of Nadine." Given this dilemma, Resnais and screen-writer Jorge Semprun probe the nature of commitment to a cause, and the necessity of commitment even to a lost cause in order to live with self respect. This is a Fritz Lang theme, but where Lang sees commitment as necessary but essentially futile, Resnais and Semprun...
...perils of this work were recently exemplified by the dilemma that faced California Sociologist Lewis Yablonsky, whose books on teen-age gang life in New York (The Violent Gang) and the Synanon cure for drug addiction (Synanon: The Tunnel Back) have been widely praised for telling it like it is. Yablonsky could tell it, because he lived with the people he studied-and his classroom presentation at San Fernando Valley State College this month earned him an "outstanding teacher" award over 9,000 of his colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky...
...constant source of concern, anxiety and fear." It caused him to turn down an offer to meet "the biggest pusher in California." While such an interview might have aided his sociological insights, he figured that the need to keep the man's identity secret presented an insuperable scholarly dilemma. In the past, he has been bothered by revelations of unpunished crimes turned up in group-therapy work among prison inmates and addicts, finally decided not to report them...