Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twenty-six years ago, Myrdal was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation to write a definitive study of the American Negro. Myrdal spent four years researching and writing and produced a masterpiece, An American Dilemma, which destroyed forever the comfortable white notion that separate could be equal. A pivotal book in the history of U.S. race relations, it influenced the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in the schools...
After he had completed his mammoth project, Myrdal went home to teach and write about international economics. This year he came back, took a hard look at America and declared that it had a new dilemma. The greatest problem in the world today, he asserts, is the near-stagnant U.S. economy...
...Presidential address to this summer's NUSAS congress, Jonty Driver, summarized the bitter dilemma and strong idealism of the NUSAS leadership...
Michael Yudkin, a Harkness Fellow now in Lowell House, was a student at Cambridge when he wrote his Essay on Snow. It remains on of the finest critiques of the Two-Culture thesis produced so far; unfortunately, in demolishing Snow, Yudkin falls to suggest satisfactory alternatives to a dilemma which all observers agree is both real and critical...
...problem Keats faced was, how to achieve originality in the face of tradition? How does literature use literature? And Keats, believes Bate, "was somehow able, after the age of twenty-two, to confront this dilemma, and to trancend...