Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some other Catholic theologians agree with Lepp's proposal. In the same issue of Marriage, Benedictine Father Dennis Doherty, who specializes in moral theology, suggests that the church might find a way out of the dilemma by redefining what it means by a valid marriage. According to canon law, a marriage is valid if it has been properly witnessed and then consummated sexual ly. If some essential requisite in the sacrament is missing, the couple may later be able to gain an annulment, which means in effect that the marriage was null and void from the beginning.* Divorce...
...regulatory law on the books before long. Attorney General Katzenbach favors a law that would allow supervised police wiretapping and bugging, but concedes it would be better to outlaw the practice altogether (except for national security purposes) than to continue the present confused situation. The wider dilemma is much harder to cope with: how to preserve privacy not only against the outer thrust of modern life but the inner fear of solitude...
...this confronted the Bank of England with a delicate dilemma: Should the bank recommend an increase in Britain's discount rate from 6% to 7%, or perhaps more? Such a move would reduce the sterling drain, but it would make it harder for British businessmen to borrow money, and thus unsettle the economy more. The decision is largely up to Leslie K. O'Brien, who took office last week as the bank's 114th governor...
...fact catches even an agile politician like Lyndon Johnson in a dilemma. He can act within a relatively wide range of alternatives, and be sure that the public will approve of what he does; but the same public will almost inevitably dislike the outcome. Since the Stanford-Chicago poll was taken the conflicts between the Ky government and the Buddhists, plus the steadily rising number of casualties, have discredited the President's policies. In the latest nationwide poll, only 47 per cent supported Johnson's actions in Vietnam...
Aggression into Love. Is there a way out of this dilemma? Lorenz finds it in an animal capacity called "redirected activity." In the case of the greylag goose, redirection works like this: the same movements the goose makes when it attacks an enemy it makes with only slight variation when it professes love for its lifelong mate. The movements are the same, the feeling is totally altered. What has intervened, in the author's opinion, is an instinctual process analogous to the one Freud calls sublimation. Animal rage has been sublimated into social feeling, aggression has been transformed into...