Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's what happens when you summarize Tolstoy in a paragraph. What is important here is evil--when Nekhlyudov stopped listening to his conscience, evil began. So, too, the vices of bureaucrats and the injustices of procedure share Nekhlyudov's guilt for Katyusha's dilemma. But forgiveness is also important: both Katyusha and Nekhlyudov emerge "good people" after their long and torturing period of atonement. Not to mention the people, the imperfect masses Tolstoy cherished...
...dusted off a U.S. statute passed in 1795, which provides that the Government must reveal the "abode" of any witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky demanded and got a list of the names and home addresses of all 75 agents. The dilemma was obvious. Was the conviction of Sokolov and Joy Ann worth making public the identity of dozens of U.S. cloak-and-dagger men, thereby ending their usefulness? The Justice Department thought...
...definition, since we do not think a broad General Education means a series of survey courses (in the worst sense of that phrase) spread over a variety of topics. We share fully the Committee's desire to avoid superficiality in Gen Ed. But who does not? To solve the dilemma of breadth versus depth is inevitably to settle on basic definitions of the General Education. But this is not easy...
...result of the present situation," Dean Griswold said, "is that we are in something of a dilemma. As it becomes more widely known that we try to give a responsive answer to letters containing legal questions, we receive more and more requests. The volume has grown to some hundreds a year, and it could soon be in the thousands. We have already passed the point where we can handle the matters satisfactorily. What are we to do? I have not been able to accept this conclusion, that we should ignore requests, either from the professional or the humane point...
...dilemma that faced the Doty Committee was whether it could recast General Education in a form both strong and comprehensible, whether it could give unity and meaning to the program without making Gen Ed static and rigid, whether it could retain or even add a broad range of offerings without being lost in a welter of contradictory goals...