Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finds out he will be released in three months; Winston, in for life, is condemned to become one of the desiccated, withered shells of men they see working silently at the quarry. Their staging of Antigone shows a clear bias for Antigone, but it cannot gloss over the real dilemma of State-enforced law vs. the individual...
...cruel dilemma over busing has caused parents, both black and white, to raise a series of legitimate questions to which there are no easy answers: Is forced busing to balance schools racially worth all the uproar? Does it produce better schooling for disadvantaged black youngsters and no loss for the white youngsters...
...life is mocked or threatened by homosexuality. This view is strongly influenced by Christianity and Judaism, which have traditionally taught that homosexuality is unnatural and its practice sinful. Though all the major churches and branches of Judaism have increasingly come to recognize that the homosexual's dilemma is a matter for pastoral care and understanding, they continue to refuse to ordain avowed homosexuals (with the exception of the United Church of Christ, which has ordained one openly gay minister...
With Cambodia it's an old dilemma--do we look at events in Indochina as Americans with liberal values or as the Indochinese must look at them? The Khmer Rouge can certainly no longer meet with our approval on our own terms, because they violate our feeling that anything worthy need not be accomplished through violence and cruelty. On their own terms they continue to be most of what we supported them for--staunch nationalists, socialists, remakers of their own society. It is a conflict that I am not ready to resolve. Although The Crimson has yet to commit itself...
British Physicist Paul A.M. Dirac attacked this dilemma in 1931 with the newly developed tool of quantum mechanics. His calculations showed that there should indeed be a magnetic particle (or family of particles) that carries a basic magnetic charge-either north or south. That charge, said Dirac, would be 68.5 times as strong as the charge on an electron. Or it would be some multiple of 68.5-say, 137. Scientists had good reason to respect Dirac's reasoning. He had earlier predicted the existence of a positron, or positively charged counterpart of the electron. The positron was subsequently discovered...