Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan has one of the world's most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced Western artists and architects from the mid-19th century to the present. But at home Japanese architects have long found themselves faced with a dilemma: how to be modern and still remain Japanese. When the modern movement was brought back from Europe by early Japanese students of Germany's Bauhaus and France's Le Corbusier (see below), the results were often merely derivative cubist modern...
...show he is such a winner, and that Nixon is not. Yet, while the whole "Nixon can't win" issue is undoubtedly of interest to the regular party workers, it is completely irrelevant to the voter trying to decide which man he wants to win. And, more significantly, this dilemma forces Rockefeller to concentrate on issues which emphasize his campaigning ability, his television sex appeal, rather than his political statesmanship. Furthermore, the positions he takes in such a situation tend to be chosen on crowd-pleasing content, for, campaigning to show "Nixon can't win," he himself cannot afford...
...which the Supreme Court footnoted An American Dilemma, a study of the American Negro by Swedish Social Economist Myrdal...
...solution to this dilemma would be to permit students now residing in Mather Hall--affiliated with Leverett House--to switch their affiliations to Quincy. Those now living in Mather would not be forced to move into the Towers, where they would have to furnish new rooms; the hall would not have to be filled almost completely with sophomores. Last year, over 100 upperclassmen switched into Quincy, and this privilege should be granted those now living in Mather Hall...
Student Backgrounds Present Dilemma Faced with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...