Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth. Agnon does not solve the dilemma any more than life does. He ends by planting doubts about Susan's reality. Did the past, once gone, ever exist...
...project. The program will be sponsored officially by the National Association of Student Body Presidents and Editors, which comprises the people who recently wrote to President Johnson and met with Secretary Rusk. The petition, to be circulated within about two weeks, will call on the Administration to recognize the dilemma of students who believe that the present war is immoral and unjust and who, nevertheless, may be forced to serve...
...peace marchers [April 21] present their cause and their country with a dilemma. They are citizens who must take an unpopular and seemingly unpatriotic stand; they are a minority who must dissent from the will of the majority. To blame this loyal, perceptive and somewhat vocal minority, however, for prolonging the war is nonsense. The dilemma of majority rule with minority rights is one that, fortunately, a democratic people must always face. Those of us who are opposed to the war in Viet Nam should abide by the will of the majority, but we should not forfeit our rights...
King's Dilemma. Curiously, the fiery, fiercely independent Greeks raised not a bit of resistance to the coup, and there did not even seem to be much resentment against the takeover. Students, who only a few weeks ago had marched in the streets, now sat around talking idly. There were no signs that anyone was taking to the hills. Of course, soldiers were still much in evidence, and the air force buzzed cities and towns to show its solidarity with the army...
Young King Constantine faced a dilemma. He had not been privy to the plot and had at first vigorously opposed the takeover. But he was caught between an overzealous military, which claimed that it was acting in his name, and demagogic leftist politicians who threatened his throne. Asked about the junta's relations with the King, Interior Minister Pattakos said: "We love him. We are with him, and he is with us." After a few days of delay, the King followed his subjects' example and went along with the new government in hopes of directing...