Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest vehicle presents a sophisticated quadrangular situation which is a sharp departure from her last three plays, "Candida," "The Doctor's Dilemma," and "The Three Sisters." These were all period pieces with some degree of the social significance from which Miss Cornell has determined to escape, at least temporarily. She believes that modern drama cannot do justice to a contemporary event of such significance as the present war while it is in the process of unfolding...
Posnickety. In Springfield, Mass., Mailman Fred Anthony got a letter from overseas Sergeant Simon Posnick: "I have learned from [my wife] that it has gotten to such a point that [she] says she could kiss you every time you bring a letter from me. You see what a dilemma...
Unexplained Dilemma. The investigating board was "astonished" at the dismal results of its findings, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, chief Navy surgeon (and chairman*), told newsmen. A special "cause for concern" was the number of discharges for neuropsychiatric disabilities, "particularly those occurring in the first six months of service." In other words, the number of men who could not stand the regimentation that must go with military service is already too high; lowering of standards is out of the question...
Rallying to her husband's defense, Mrs. Miller cried: "I still love Bob." In that case, asked a coarse, unread reporter, why had she been playing around with the late Dr. Lind? Her answer summed up the timeless dilemma of distraught ladies in fictional triangles: "That is one of the things you can't explain...
More monuments to human genius are crowded into the Italian peninsula than into any other like area in the world. If Italy is steadily bombed or shelled, man's most concentrated cultural record may be destroyed. This dilemma reverberated in the letters column of the London Times last week. The issue-Art v. Human Life in Wartime-was first raised by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 62). "It would indeed be lamentable," he wrote, "if by the action of our armies . . . incomparable treasures of the history of art and of religion were destroyed...