Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if these assertions are taken at face value, critics point out, they lead to an unresolved dilemma...
...Americans see the program as a distortion of themselves and a threat to their own fortunes in the U.S. Most of the criticism has come from the 32,000-member Japanese American Citizens League, the oldest and largest Japanese civil rights group in the U.S. Sanga Moyu portrays a dilemma of divided patriotism that most Japanese Americans say does not exist. "There are no torn loyalties," says J.A.C.L. National Director Ron Wakabayashi. "It gives a completely wrong impression." Adds Floyd Shimomura, the organization's president, "We spent three generations trying to prove our loyalties...
...that speak powerfully to East Germans. In one painting by Leipzig Artist Wolfgang Mattheuer, a modern Icarus with gossamer wings struggles to fly above healthy, ordered garden plots, where most of his neighbors are too busy to notice. A statue by Mattheuer offers a more telling glimpse of the dilemma that East Germans face. A frightened man, his face creased with worry, is shown removing a mask shaped like a sheep's head. But, as the East German artist explains, "he is just as ready to put it back...
...left with a now familiar classical dilemma of our age--our government finds itself making devices which nobody wants, everyone fears, and are never intended for use. But we are also left with a type of weapon which, sadly, cannot really escape the cruel dictates of deterrence theory. Despite their admitted horror, weapons which burn lungs, spread plague or shatter central nervous systems still respond to the same "logic" as nukes--if the United States has them the Soviets will be less tempted to use them...
LIKE TYMPANI, the character of Sax, played by Joel Press, searches for a musical answer to the music industry's dilemma The play wright clearly sides with the saxophone player, whose solution of jazz and creative improvisation is ignored by the movie producers as they stagnate in their own deathly juices Shepard looks for artistic form of expression with the elusive quality of "presence," describing it as a realization that comes to the viewer when he encounters something that's undeniable." Stale Hollywood movies and chicken-shit plays don't have that presence improvisational music, he says sometimes does...