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That basic serenity, though muddled in Wasp, retains for this latest book its strongest quality to confront starlight on the larger questions of morality and the universe. The most interesting dilemma posed and indeed and the only one carried through consistently, is the crisis of faith among the cathedral's staff in the face of terror and bereavement. At a party, someone brings up "a tidbit from seminary training. "a quotation from George Orwell...
...Arafat was caught in his usual dilemma. He needed a strong show of support in Algiers to give Hussein at least a tacit go-ahead. At the same time, he wanted to preserve a P.L.O. position ambiguous enough to satisfy the hard-liners who oppose the Reagan plan or any other concessions to reach a real peace in the Middle East. The danger was that the P.L.O., a loose coalition of eight groups that run the gamut from Arafat's own moderate Fatah organization to the hardline Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine led by George Habash...
...awareness of social issues naturally extended to the present dilemma of the street people. "These people had specific needs that I had the capacity to meet," he observes...
...disturbing bit of news. The bid you have been helping him prepare for construction of the new city hall is a sure winner because he has arranged to slip the mayor $10,000. You choke on an hors d'oeuvre, pondering the lawyer's age-old dilemma: what to do about a client who admits to being involved in an ongoing crime...
Montefiore put the Christian's moral dilemma in succinct terms: "For the deterrent to be credible, we must be prepared to use it. But to use it would be catastrophic and immoral. The objection is formidable, but not overwhelming. If it is effective, [the force] will deter and never be used. That is the justification. To be determined to use it in response to nuclear attack has ensured so far, and I believe will continue to ensure, that there is no nuclear aggression...