Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memento mori, but they are the outward manifestation of an inner process that must be highly traumatic. The Soviet leaders are among the most conservative on earth. They hate uncertainty, they loathe unpredictability. Leadership transitions are fraught with both. So this time around, they decided to cope with the dilemma by going to Gorbachev. That way, they hoped, the system could at least stave off another transition for a long time. Gorbachev, in short, offered the prospect of institutional longevity...
...will Gorbachev cope with this dilemma? During his speech to the Central Committee last week, he referred to "speeding up the country's social and economic development," a strategy that he associated with the name of Yuri Andropov. The allusion was revealing. During Andropov's 15-month reign, the former KGB chief launched a campaign against worker absenteeism and nomenklatura corruption. At least one prominent black marketeer, with connections to the family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also...
Watson, who is in better health, faces the kind of dilemma now that his Harvard counterpart will at the end of the season. The Chicago Black Hawks are anxious for Watson to john them as soon as possible...
...fell into neglect during almost a decade of martial law. The U.S. wishes to encourage as much reform as possible while Marcos is still strong enough to hold the fractious elements of his nation in check. As the moderate opposition continues to squabble, Filipinos find themselves caught in a dilemma: the man they hold responsible for many of their woes, Ferdinand Marcos, also looks to be the only man who is in a position to help solve some of those problems...
These risible convolutions are undercut by another novelistic device: the interweaving of the dialogue with "spoken thoughts," asides from each character to himself and the audience. Form tangles with content here. Thematically, Strange Interlude is a tragedy about the dilemma of convention vs. desire, decorous actions vs. lancing passions. Formally, it is a tart ! comedy of contrasts between what we say and what we tell ourselves we believe. The tragedy is as hoary as a D.W. Griffith silent romance; the comedy is as up to date as The Real Thing. Appropriately, Keith Hack's production finds its tone in waggish...