Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian debuts, Granville Barker is being ballyhooed by Shaw Festival artistic director Christopher Newton as "maybe the last undiscovered great playwright...
...script deserves credit for realizing the class conflicts in such a plot. Seducing the homeless into the game, the criminals use the lure of a cash prize for surviving. The dilemma of the victims is not ignored. Their uncertainty and hesitancy is won over by the chance of getting off the streets. The predations of the rich take many forms: an uncaring society ignores the downtrodden and then consumes them for sport...
This will continue to compound the dilemma facing many Catholics--how to reconcile rigid doctrinal teachings with prevailing social norms and the demands of modern life...
...fingers of a man who's been plundering cars since the 1950s. During World War II, Palamarchuk claims he served on an underwater-demolition team in the Pacific, being paid, in effect, "$54 a month to kill people." As a result, he says, filching cars never posed an ethical dilemma for him. Over lunch, he insists he's "retired" after stealing more than 1,000 cars -- enough to help put two daughters through law and medical school. "Thank God, they didn't follow me," he says with a frenzied laugh. "Who the hell needs another car thief in the family...
...that "Don't ask, don't tell" expands privacy rights by asserting that soldiers have no obligation to tell, but the concealment contemplated actually asks one to live a lie in order to serve. Bill Clinton understood this clearly last February, when he asked the Pentagon to study the dilemma. "I think people should not be asked to lie if they're going to be allowed to serve," the President said. "The question is not whether they should be there or not. They are there. The narrow question of this debate is . . . Should you be able to say that...