Word: dilemna
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...other wonders, in "The Badgers": "how perilous is it to choose/Not to love the life we're shown?" The artistic poet never resolves this artistic dilemna, but that doesn't matter. Heaney carefully considers the issues at stake, and finds contentment in language, though he's not wholly satisfied with the life of an artist. But in essence, the very existence of his poems is a resolution of his inner crisis. The poet deserves a great deal of credit for posing his difficult questions with such dexterity. All too often, contemporary poets feel compelled to interrupt fluent verse with awkward...
Realizing the seriousness of his dilemna, the jockey leapt from his mount and began a frenzied dash after the pack, which was already approaching the first turn. He finished a respectable fourth, just missing the Win, Place and Show money...
...novel. The Last Chance, Jaffe updates those women, describing a year in the lives of four women verging on 40, all friends from the past; each of them faces the same dilemna of marriage versus career once again, and for the last time each attempts to discover what it is she wants and how that goal can be attained. The women who 20 years ago took a deep breath and gulped down bourbon have matured to white wine, but in their new sophistication they remain as drawn to New York's lure as ever, continually drifting deeper into its magnetic...
Separated from the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...
...preliminary negotiations are one thing, but fundamental progress on the questions of Golan, of the West Bank, and of the Palestinians, will not be achieved under the Meir regime. Unfortunately the present political climate in Israel precludes the formation of such a unity government, and this is a key dilemna in the Mid-East crisis...