Word: dilemmas
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Standing outside her office the afternoon Iwent to see her was a bespectacled undergraduate,who spoke rapidly and animatedly aboutUlysses, which I'd never read. He was aphysics concentrator but declared he could notabide spending all his energy on numbers andformulas alone. His dilemma, he said, wasreconciling his talent for physics with his loveof literature. There was no doubt that theirconversation was in full swing, but I'd made anappointment and was determined not to leave.Finally, she saw me and interrupted the Joyceaficionado. "Wait for me," she said to him, "Thiswill only take a few minutes." With that she sweptme...
This woman's story perhaps most clearly illustrates the dilemma that Radcliffe seems to face today: the fact that for many alumnae, Radcliffe is a bitter remembrance of a time when they were not allowed equal treatment as students at Harvard. Yet that is not to say that when Harvard and Radcliffe merged in the '70s, equality swept into the river Houses and eradicated years of entrenched discrimination; women still found obstacles in the classroom, in their living environments and in their extracurricular activities. One editor at Newsweek recollected during a panel on women in the media...
...This dilemma is typical of Amis' writing. As in London Fields, the details in The Information are often brilliantly rendered, but the big picture doesn't quite add up. Still, Amis' ability to transform the mundane into the morbidly funny makes the novel worth reading. The passages describing Richard are gems...
...dilemma in hard science classes seems fairly easy to solve: don't hold class and don't assign new material during reading period. Allow students to digest the old lectures instead of having to continue attending 9 a.m. classes and frantically trying to assimilate new concepts in the days before the exam...
Thank you thank you thank you thank you, you're the best! Last week I read your recipe for dream decision-making as I was grappling with the dilemma of whom to beg to be my date for the formal this Saturday. As I was smoking the Camel Unfiltered cigarette in the light of the moon, a Harvard police officer chanced by and noticed my unsteadiness, caused partly by the peach schnapps, which was more than I could handle, and partly by my crazy nicotine buzz. I was Ad-Boarded for under-age drinking, and the permanent blemish...