Word: dilemmas
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...Many people pooh-pooh musicals by dubbing them escapist" and "silly." But Pippin, while providing a pleasant diversion from blizzards and bombastic politicos, stands out from cliched musicals with its own resilience. Much more than a fantasy, Pippin deals with a very central and poignant dilemma in our lives--our existence, and what the hell to do with...
Morial, a black liberal Democr at elected last fall, with 52 per cent of his city's vote, will take office May 1. Until then Morial will teach a seminar at the Institute called "Urban Policy and Intergovernmental Relations: A Mayor's Dilemma...
There was good reason for his discretion. The challenge facing Italy is a forceful, intensified demand by the Communists for a direct role in an emergency government that would deal with Italy's mounting economic, labor and law-and-order problems. The Christian Democrats' dilemma: find a compromise that would give the Communists new power in governing Italy, however that role might be disguised, or face the trauma of another early national election that would further polarize the country...
...focus, suggesting that Carter may not be sure what he wants to do. The powerful interest groups that make up the Democratic Party are urging him to be a big-spending, activist President, yet the country is growing more conservative and resentful of interference from Washington. To escape this dilemma would require transcendental leadership of a kind that Carter has not yet demonstrated...
...that poses a dilemma for physicists. If quasars are really so far away, yet bright enough to be detected through ordinary optical and radio telescopes, they must be radiating more energy than 50 to 100 galaxies, each of which contains hundreds of billions of stars. Yet careful measurements by radio telescopes indicate that a quasar is much smaller than a galaxy and perhaps no bigger than a solar system. The problem: no physical process yet known to scientists can generate such incredible energy in so tiny a volume...