Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major dilemma is housing location, according to Weaver. If housing rehabilitation is undertaken in a non-white area, more low-income housing is provided but the ghetto is solidified. On the other hand, middle and upper-income groups of both races oppose public housing being constructed in their neighborhoods...
Class conflict has substantially perpetuated this dilemma according to Weaver. He said that a plan which facilitates integration is often the least beneficial policy for securing good, low-income housing. He pointed out that it is primarily upper and middle-class Negroes who push for integration, while the lows affluent cannot afford this luxury...
Early next morning, King's attorneys again appeared before Judge Johnson, announced King's decision. Without another word, Johnson dictated an order enjoining the marchers until after the Thursday hearing. This placed King in an even deeper dilemma: his entire civil rights success has been based on upholding the law of the land and fighting for its observance. Now, if he marched, he would be doing so in direct defiance of a federal court order...
Died. Aubrey Williams, 74, first and only boss of F.D.R.'s National Youth Administration, a gaunt, Alabama-born liberal who helped organize the NYA in 1933 to help Depression youngsters escape from "the dilemma of no experience, no job; no job, no experience," over the next ten years built it into a $50 million-a-year agency providing vocational training for youths from 16 to 25, an idea resurrected last year as the Job Corps by one of his old state directors, Lyndon B. Johnson; of intestinal cancer; in Washington...
...facts. He envisions an Athenian society of proud, liberally-educated citizens; but the reality he tells us about is the reality of unemployed unskilled laborers going to night school and eventually getting employment as semiskilled laborers. He ignores the larger, noneconomic contexts of modern life--particularly the spiritual dilemma of the ordinary man dwarfed and drained by the mass industrial society that engulfs him. Teaching a man to tend a machine that does automatically what he used to do by hand will not automatically make him contented...