Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next year, Robertson plans to study 18thcentury English literature at Oxford University."I like reading 18th century novels that featurethe dilemma of women's choice of partner," sheexplains...
...This is not the last battle," he said. "My prediction is we're going to be here a year from now going through the exact same dilemma...
...performance at New York City's Lincoln Center, a redoubt of sober establishment culture. "My work is not about entertainment," she says. "People usually leave my shows crying." After leaving one of them, her grandmother sent her a note. It was a mixed review that could sum up the dilemma that any unbridled artist poses for the NEA. "She said that I was talented," Finley recalls, "but also a toiletmouth...
...after 40 years and left its paladins standing with wet socks in the puddle. "And now what shall become of us, without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution." The words of the poet Constantine Cavafy -- shh! a Greek homosexual! -- apply quite well to the right's dilemma...
Seventy-three years later, the revolutionary legacy is fading. The current transition from totalitarianism to democracy has created a dilemma. On the one hand, only democratization can provide the basis for humane, modern political life. On the other hand, democracy by itself cannot keep a multi-national federation together. Quite the contrary: partly because of democratization, centrifugal forces are gathering momentum. As the attempts to democratize post-Tito Yugoslavia have shown, a more powerful antidote is needed to fight the virus of nationalism...