Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked heart) to outer catastrophes. I sailed off to Bosnia and Hiroshima--big objective correlatives." Spasms of bloodthirsty fury, he observes, can block up the collective heart of entire ethnic groups, who cannot let go of old grievances...
...represented minorities to its graduate program. While the department should change its policies to ensure that the financial need of all students is met, it should also continue to provide generous aid packages for minorities. The lack of a substantial number of highly educated minorities is an acute American dilemma. The government department should take whatever steps are necessary to meet this need...
...Willmore, 78% of the students do not speak English well enough to follow a standard American curriculum. Like thousands of public schools across the country, Willmore faces a dilemma: Should immigrant children be instructed entirely in English? Or should they be taught academic subjects in their native language while gradually learning English? For three decades, researchers have debated the complex cognitive issues. Now, however, arguments have moved beyond pedagogy. Bilingual education is exploding into one of the nation's most divisive political issues, fueled, on one hand, by a backlash against immigration and affirmative action and, on the other...
Worse still, the young artist could expect no informed criticism. In Boston, Copley complained, people judged portraits only on their likeness to the sitter--as effigies, not paintings. He set out to resolve this dilemma, at least, by painting a demonstration piece and sending it to experts in England...
Marshall sidesteps into a more complicated dilemma involving his wife, a pretty student with whom he is flirting and a colleague charged with sexual abuse. Everyone in the novel, needless to say, turns out to be "another you" from the one apparent at the outset. But the narrative, crammed with choppy incident and dialogue, never gathers enough force to power the story. This is Beattie's first novel in five years (she has published one collection of short stories since 1990's Picturing Will), and so a real disappointment. She was an authentic voice of the late 1970s...