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...more basic to the current dilemna of Memorial Church is the anomaly of an established Protestant church (with strong Unitarian/Congregational leanings) in a community that has become increasingly otherwise. "I don't know what they believe in," Gomes said of the typical undergraduates at Harvard, "but whatever it is they don't do it here...
Neither a discriminatory, nor a universal privilege seem to be acceptable policies: the first has dangerous elitist implications, the second costs too much in terms of the efficacy of the courts. Justice White, who poses this dilemna, decided that no type of journalist's privilege was justified. But the loss of information which his Caldwell decision imposed on the public compels us to look for a solution to the dilemna, a solution which avoids both discriminatory and blanket grants of immunity from testimony...
Dillard and increasingly more educators are proposing as a remedy to this dilemna that teachers of black children be varied in Black English. Black children would be taught the principles of reading in Black English and would learn Standard English as a second language, much like Spanish-speaking children...
...years it has been clear that the only morality Hollywood knows is sexual. It's the difference between Green Berets going into immediate distribution and Ulysses hobbled by censors and X ratings. Meyer goes to the underbelly of the dilemna and shows little old ladies with their shopping baskets in their laps just how nasty sex can be. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a middle-class handbook on the limits of sexual experience, and if you can't squeeze the lessons out of the narrative, Meyer recants the dilemnas of each character at the end of the film...
...current ideological dilemna reflects the black dilemna too: the simultaneous desire for racial integration and black separatism. He may embrace much of the militant line on black power, but Farmer still hopes for acceptance of the black man in the white man's world. "The agenda, though," he says, "has changed so greatly from ten years ago." Farmer is trying to catch up, but the new militancy has led many a former integrationist into a theoretical muddle. He finds himself considerably to the right of Roy Innis, his successor at CORE, and other young separatists like Stokely Carmichael for whom...