Word: bafflements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Herald Tribune, "it is easy for both author and audience to get lost." "Mr. Albee has virtually ordered the critics not to give away his play's surprise, and my aim is to be obedient," said Howard Taubman in the Times, sug gesting his own utter bafflement. "It is difficult to set down with any show of confidence exactly what he is telling us," said Richard Watts in the Daily Post. "Search me," said John Chapman in the Daily News. "In Tallulah Bankhead's famed critical phrase, there may be less to this than meets...
Lincoln died nine hours later. Booth lived like a dog while the search for him spread out across the country. Occasionally he saw a newspaper, only to read with bafflement and bitter disappointment that his crime had been condemned throughout the South. On April 26 he was cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Va. Troops set fire to the barn to force him out and, as he was silhouetted in the flames, saw him felled by a single bullet. "Tell Mother I died for my country," he whispered as he was dragged from the fire...
Squash & Dates. The image of Huntington Hartford II as a serious intellectual is something of a bafflement to those who knew him when. Grandson and name sake of the founder of A. & P. young Hunt inherited about 10% of his grand father's holdings as well as a sizable in come from his father Edward, who made his own fortune with the development of the Hartford shock absorber. He went to St. Paul's before Harvard (class of '34), where his only serious interests seemed to be tennis (good) and squash (excellent...
Even the delays and disappointments illuminated the extraordinary American commitment to space. Space was frontpage news every day of the week, and the news was of failure and frustration. But the public reaction was a far cry from the humiliation and bafflement Americans felt four years ago, when their first feeble efforts to match Sputnik I were fizzling. There were no demands for anybody's head, there were few doubts that what ever had gone wrong one week would be fixed another week-soon. The Adminis tration had asked Congress to raise space spending $5.5 billion-nearly double...