Word: dilemmas
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...Nick, threatens the pair's unconventional life. Despite Nick's valiant attempts to assure them he reads educational books and has a healthy and well-adjusted environment, the Child Welfare Board rules that he must leave if Murray does not find a job. To add to Murray's dilemma, he and Sandy fall in love, and his free-spirit faces the agonizing choice of kowtowing to society's definition of "well-adjusted" or losing the two people he values most...
...CRUX OF THE PLAY comes in the aftermath of all the freshman conversions, all the sex, the jealousy, the wasted nights. Kramer says, "The primary goal of this play is to make you laugh, but there is a dilemma endemic to freshmen--namely, what are you going to do with yourself? You have to make a decision...
...that majority rule must come to the country. Sooner or later, South Africa will face guerrilla pressure, although its armed forces could easily cope with the early stages of subversion. But an all-out military threat to South Africa could also bring a threat of Soviet involvement?and a dilemma for the West. Having found their voice at last, the unfranchised blacks of urban South Africa cannot be expected to turn silent again as long as they have legitimate grievances. And their demands are bound to increase. Political and economic concessions by a Nationalist government will probably be too little...
...That boy has known a passion more ferocious than any I have ever known throughout my life, and I envy him for it," Dysart declares to the audience, making an eloquent summary of the dilemma that the psychiatrist perceives as he approaches Strang's case. In the figure of the disturbed boy, Dysart has run up against a patient who matches his own forceful character, yet can identify Dysart's very unique weaknesses with all the insight of one of the psychiatrist's professional colleagues. Strang senses the sexual and emotional impotence of his putative healer, using his instinctive acumen...
...Blind Date, Kosinski constructs one moral dilemma after another. One particularly gruesome scene depicts Levanter seeking vengeance against a hotel clerk, whose betrayal of one of Levanter's Eastern European friends to the secret police resulted in the brutal crippling of his friend. Levanter lures the clerk to a sauna, knocks him unconscious, then unflinchingly shoves a saber up his rectum. While Kosinski says he himself would not have killed the clerk, making Levanter perform that act confronts the reader with the question: at what moment should life be spared. "The act generates respect for life even though...