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Whichever way the Israelis resolve their dilemma, it will not be a satisfying solution. Israel has consistently said it would not settle for anything less than restoration of the cease-fire lines that were in force before the recent fighting started. But in a weekend press conference, Golda Meir seemed to leave open the door to negotiations. "When we hear a suggestion for a cease-fire," she said, "the government will seriously deal with it." Without a ceasefire, Israel must align its strategy to produce a short war -certainly shorter than six weeks. Israel is simply not geared...
...Costumer J. Edgar Joseph had a problem. Would the off-white silk nightgown take to the rose dye? If not, Diva Beverly Sills would have to portray the heroine of Donizetti's Anna Bolena 30 hours later in a hand-me-down from Massenet's Manon. The dilemma was only one of several dozen facing Joseph at the time. Suddenly he rose from his chair, walked to a big dressing mirror and began screaming at himself. "What's the use of yelling at someone else?" he said. "It's nobody's fault. This...
...dilemma: the atmosphere and the most basic sentiments are so right for a genuine American folk music, and yet the ideas went wrong somewhere...
...necessary to train world citizens. He advocates, in part, "a basically comparative rather than unilinear approach" to the study of the human experience. A student would learn the characteristics of his own society and culture as well as the responses that other societies have made to the human dilemma in terms of politics, economics, family relations, literature, philosophy, morality, etc. As a result of such a course of study, the student would obtain a less parochial view of the world and an understanding of how societies change. Perhaps most important, it is Reischauer's view that the new comparative education...
Constitutional Dilemma. Richardson had gone along with a search for an out-of-court settlement because, he explained, he wanted to avoid "a constitutional dilemma of potentially serious consequence to the nation"? the dilemma of whether or not Agnew, as a sitting Vice President, could be indicted before being impeached...