Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes up his mind to follow his father's example. But the decision sets its own quandary: "If nothing makes any final difference, that fact makes no final difference either, and there is no more reason to commit suicide, say, than not to." It is the logical dilemma that so many existentialists run into. In the end, Andrews elects to live, or at least to go on existing...
...plea to the President was proposed as an amendment to Mumma's original eight point resolution by Gerhard Elston, an official of the National Council of Churches. In what Mumma calls a "good and powerful statement," Elston asked President Johnson to "recognize the dilemma of conscience of persons sworn to silence" about dealings with the intelligence agency, by releasing them from their oaths...
...good cause. The problem is the goddess's designs on King Tenintius himself. One glimpse at Fingleton's magnificent visual characterization of Diana--he looks precisely like one of the more grotesque 19th century caricatures of Britannia--and you understand the unfortunate monarch's dilemma...
...grow up. A man convicted of killing his wife runs amok on his hanging day and kills the executioner. Before a new hangman can be brought in, another man confesses to the original murder. Acquitted of that crime, the husband is then accused of murdering the hangman. The legal dilemma that confronts the young judge: Does a man have the right to kill a representative of justice in self-defense, in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice...
...facing up to his dilemma, the hero must also face up to his unmanliness. The theme is not original, but in scenes that conquer the cliche, the hero gives his girl friend the gate and reads his mother the riot act: "Leave me alone...