Word: bafflement
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...bafflement that fall, we were unable to pass on the energy that had been instilled in us during our first year at Harvard. Harvard students began taking leaves of absence in droves. Those who left didn't miss much: the renewed bombing of Cambodia on the biggest football Saturday of the fall, an invasion of Laos in February, and the final insult--Mayday in Washington. It was a time when a Harvard senior could write: "...nobody talks about the war much, because it's depressing and boring and well, the war was last year. Or the year before...
...group of 75 professors expressed "outrage," and Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling denounced "a great blow to freedom of speech." Daniel Ellsberg of "Pentagon Papers" fame drew a crowd of 2,000 to Stanford's Memorial Church, where he defended Franklin's politics and admitted his own "bafflement" at the problem of ending the Viet Nam War. Later, some 200 students marched to President Lyman's office and nailed an ultimatum to his door: "Rehire Bruce by Tuesday noon." With Defense Department recruiters scheduled to visit Palo Alto before the ultimatum runs out. Franklin still had reason...
...immediate, instinctual level, the way he might balk if a woman sauntered into an all-male sauna in which he was sweating and luxuriating. He seems to feel instinctively that Millett simply doesn't belong where she roams, that she's misguided and out of her ken. His bafflement over another liberationist, a female pamphleteer he mentions early in the article, doesn't subside quickly. "Women everywhere," he sighs, "were certainly learning how to write on many a male subject...
...TIME is correct in pointing out the aura of bafflement surrounding the Angela Davis affair [Oct. 26]. Miss Davis is variously described as "brilliant," "cerebral," "rational," and we are told that she chose active membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. because of her commitment to strict Marxist rationality. But her advocation of freedom in the "act of refusal" is not consistent with the determinist world view of dialectical materialism, which leads any good Communist ideologue to define freedom as the recognition of necessity and to dismiss any other notion as bourgeois sentiment. Nor did her flamboyant Afro coiffure lend itself...
...wants. Even an air strike against North Korea's MIG bases might well have provoked a new invasion of South Korea and created a range of risks including war with China and deterioration of relations with Moscow. The deliberations in Washington were not made any easier by widespread bafflement about North Korean intentions (see THE WORLD). Pyongyang could have been trying to help Hanoi by diverting U.S. forces from Viet Nam. The North Koreans could have been hoping to provoke retaliation, thus providing an excuse to renew ground war against South Korea. The most likely explanation is that they...