Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge South Africa, and what to do about it, represents an exceptionally painful dilemma for the U.S. TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald just completed a two-week tour of the country. His impressions...
...better solution to the dilemma posed by the confusing mass of Gen Ed requirements is to set up a totally free elective program which would eliminate the language and expository writing requirements. In its place the Faculty should offer a core of non-required courses that will serve as a basic introduction to certain subjects. The Faculty can insure that students have the option of choosing a complete general education. But students who feel they have learned enough in some areas need not enroll...
When people are trapped in a hopeless situation, is it kind to give them false hopes to live on, or is it cruel? This is the dilemma stumbled into by Jacob, a middle-aged Jew in a World War II Polish ghetto. On an impulse, Jacob claims to own a forbidden radio on which he has heard that the Russian army will soon be near enough to liberate the ghetto. His neighbors, desperate for more news, rally around to cajole, flatter and protect him, forcing him to compound his first fabrication endlessly...
...dreary campaign that not even the first television debate between the two major candidates could pep up. Late polls indicated that up to 28% of the voters were undecided which of the competing parties they preferred going into election day. They had been unable to resolve a dilemma central to Israeli politics. On the one hand, Labor was the only government that voters had known, and the party could rightly claim to be the standard-bearer of the socialist, egalitarian ideals of Israel's founders. On the other, Labor was showing the frayed edges of a party too long...
Wright's first crisis of conscience came when, as a dishwasher, he noticed a white cook spitting into the soup. To tell or not to tell the boss was the question. In the South, such tattling would have led to his being fired. He pondered his dilemma: "I wondered if a Negro who did not smile and grin was as morally loathsome to whites as a cook who spat into the food." Virtue, in this instance, triumphed...