Word: dilemmas
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Perhaps the truest measure of the dilemma is that one can so readily sympathize with both sides. The Met, headed for another $9 or $10 million deficit this year, is in its worst financial trouble ever. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and president of the Met board from 1956 to 1967, was chosen as executive director to lead the company out of that morass. He has made it clear that his way will involve considerable retrenchment...
Confronted by a vision of hell, does one stand in silent reverence for suffering or praise the spirit that surmounted it? Last week a Dutch audience faced this dilemma at the première of an opera, The Emperor of Atlantis, which was written in a concentration camp by two Jews. At the end, after a few seconds' pause, the listeners burst into applause for a work that stands on its own as a music drama of great power...
...more aware of this dilemma than the candidate. He proclaims his ability to draw conservative blue collar votes as well as liberal ones, though this is yet to be tested. "He's George Wallace without racism," says Frosty Troy, editor of the weekly Oklahoma Observer. With his paunch and pendulous second chin, his hair parted down the middle, gravy stains on his tie, a beer bottle or a container of coffee in one hand and a badly chewed but unlighted cigar in the other, Harris can hardly be mistaken for a limousine liberal. "The difference between me and McGovern...
...more remnant of Portugal's colonial empire lost last week. East Timor is a mountainous patch of jungle and coffee plantations on the eastern half of the 300-mile-long island of Timor; the other half is part of Indonesia. The Indonesian invasion at least resolved a dilemma for East Timor's 650,000 inhabitants, who had been faced with one of three political fates: continued association with Portugal leading to gradual independence, immediate independence or integration with Indonesia. The generals in Jakarta decided on integration, evidently because they feared that if independence were chosen, East Timor might...
...Message. Tire makers thus face an unenviable marketing dilemma: they dare not offend GM by quarreling openly with its claims, yet they know that those claims are likely to cost them sales. So far their solution has been to plug their new "sticky" tires heavily on TV and seek in other ways to get across the message that motorists still need snow tires to get around in the heaviest snows and on ice. Goodyear, for example, is passing around to editors a release, written like a news story that gingerly notes "there is no mention of ice traction...