Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost never enforced. "How can I go into somebody's home and find evidence to prove that somebody was serving drinks to a minor?" demanded a Los Angeles sheriff last week. But in supermarkets and commuter trains-and cocktail parties-most of the talk circled a more basic dilemma of a drinking society: Can people be kept away from alcohol until they are 21-and should they be, anyway...
...contrast, the lush spoken dialogue works little strain on the imagination. Lilith wants "to leave the mark of her desire on every living creature in the world." Warren Beatty, studiously guttural as the overzealous therapist who notes that his patient looks just like his mother, has difficulty explaining his dilemma to the chief psychiatrist. "Do you think she's trying to seduce you?" asks the doctor. "Um . . . you can't put it like that," mumbles Warren. The doctor puts it another way: "It isn't unknown for patients to seduce personnel, and vice versa." And he gamely...
...world is full of such beleaguered souls, looking, like Kafka's Joseph K, for someone authorized to cope. And naturally enough, this modern dilemma reaches an apogee of sorts in New York, the world's most modern city. There, the tenant who pays some $250 for his apartment is likely to find the price does not include a kindly landlord or even one who can be tracked down; faced with a leak that can't be stopped, and no one but his wife who cares, he must plunge into the morass of building regulations...
Nationalism puts an end to the traditional dilemma of the Ivy League Negro, caught between a color he cannot live down and a white culture he cannot become a part of. As one junior expressel it, "A man realizes that he's black and that's good. It's good to be black; black is good. He realizes that he has been denied things because he is black...
...have as if to confirm the unusual nature of this year's politics. Graham notes the oddity of the 1964 Democratic convention. Sanford Ungar also finds an air of the unnatural at the Republican convention, though produced by circumstances considerably different from those at Atlantic City. Ungar notes the dilemma that Goldwater's nomination poses for liberal Republican candidates and analyzes the various pressures which must shape a politician's decision to support or repudiate the national ticket...