Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Shibboleths. Thus in the nation's largest cities, there may be no immediate solution to the segregated-school dilemma; the only practical course is to improve the teaching in the schools as they exist. But in countless smaller communities, North and South, the use of buses -however inconvenient or expensive -is not only practical but virtually the only way to achieve integration. That is what makes President Nixon's defense of the antibusing forces so questionable. To be sure, his statement was carefully hedged. But he expressed no personal zeal for the principle of integration, but shifted...
Potential Disaster. In previous years, moreover, when the state legislature tried to enact strong antipollution bills, local industry-especially the pulp and paper companies-hinted that the cost of cleaning up might force them to leave Maine entirely. "Payrolls or pickerel" became the dilemma's label; fish killed by water pollution represented the minimum price for keeping industry and jobs...
Lesotho is an enclave of South Africa, and that fact is both her destiny and her special dilemma. For reasons of economy and geography, no Basuto government could ever afford to actively oppose the doctrines of White domination...
Gerzon avoids this whole dilemma by defining it out of existence. His reference to youth supposedly include only "young people who perceive the new challenges, not those who continue to accept old values as if nothing had been changed." The Whole World Is Watching requires a monumental suspension of disbelief...
That is a laudable stand. But in practical application, it puts the University in a dilemma. Either Pusey leaves before his allotted time is up, or else Harvard endures the next two or three years without the changes it thinks it should make. Surely Pusey realizes the danger of such protracted inflexibility...