Word: bafflement
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...have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors and gallery owners are now shopping in Manhattan for U.S. moderns). But this summer is the first time Europe has had a wholesale view of what the U.S. abstractionists have to offer. For the story of the excitement, controversy and bafflement the show has aroused, along with four pages of color reproductions, see ART, American Abstraction Abroad...
...last resolving his boyhood bafflement, Cinemogul Cecil B. (The Ten Commandments) DeMille, a veteran purveyor of history as it should have been -with color, wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon...
...moves with deceptive lightness through domestic crises and international power plays. His mind and personality are quicksilver; there is a nowhere, now-there quality to his thinking and actions that bewilders his friends and enrages his foes. A Dutch negotiator, after too long an exposure to Sukarno, cried in bafflement: "He is utterly unreliable, one day a fascist, the next a Communist; one day a friend of the white man, the next a violent enemy." No one admires such diversity more than Sukarno himself. On his s6th birthday last year, he told a crowd of well-wishers: "I was born...
...headlines over Thomasville, Ga. datelines last week during what longtime White House reporters deemed the most baffling of all Dwight Eisenhower's presidential weeks. Reason for bafflement : for the first time no one even tried to keep up the appearance that the vacationing President was in daily command of U.S. affairs...
...rebel leaders admit bafflement at how to win friends with dirty collars. Moreover, after failure of an anti-Batista navy uprising in Cienfuegos (TIME, Sept. 16), once dissident officers are for the moment behaving themselves. Uncertain how to turn the stalemate into a victory, the rebels demand that the U.S. cut off arms to Batista-a move which they think would be a powerful enough blow to the army's morale to bring the dictator down...