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Such is the awesome tragedy of revolution, a tragedy just re-enacted in Chile, a tragedy that has always posed a wretched dilemma for the Left. Socialists, believing that men and women are products of their social circumstance, can hardly pin any ultimate blame on those who stand athwart the path of revolution. And yet the imperatives of a situation quite often seem to dictate that those people who impede progress be removed, at times forceably and violently removed...
...Left dilemma was posed anew by the military takeover in Chile. As the dictatorship fastens its hold on the country, as the generals with the sunglasses issue orders for more executions, the debate that has divided the Chilean Left in recent years will flare up once again on a world scale, just as it has so many times before in this century...
...Agnew should leave office for any reason, Nixon would face a dilemma. His nominee as Agnew's successor must be approved by a majority of both the Senate and the House. Congress might refuse to confirm a weak or controversial appointee. On the other hand, the appointment of a strong, popular man would make Nixon's own resignation -or impeachment-more acceptable to much of the public...
...nothing else comes out of four years at Harvard, you will have to decide whether or not to take the path of least resistance. The dilemma, of course, is that the easy life comes for free. If you are lazy, it is the only way to go. If you want to get rid of the jimmies, you have to shake them...
...Ward 402, Glasser's cause is not really euthanasia as such but a fashionable skepticism about progress in general. By focusing on chronic diseases, the book mixes up the anguished, specific personal dilemma of the hopelessly ill and their families with a general social crisis in American medicine. There are hard decisions to be made (TIME, July 16) about when a patient really ceases to live though he is technically still alive, as well as about staggering costs, medical needs and, indeed, the requirements of pure humanity. Such subjects, though, demand either a straightforward, rigorous, get-the-whole-story...