Word: bafflements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Everything ends badly. William loses all his money, and Poodle, who has walked out on him, comes clinging back. The reader is left with the information that a fool is a fool and a feeling of bafflement about why a skillful author has chosen to pull the wings off this particular literary...
...Death to Bear. It is as if. against all his impulses, Armah will not show pity-will not permit life to be more than the choice, as he puts it, of "what kind of death we can bear." With bafflement, almost with rage, he confronts "the man" he himself has created and asks: Was there not something "unnatural in any man who imagined he could escape the inevitable decay of life and not accept the decline into final disintegration...
Imagine also Grosjean's bafflement when he found, from carbon-14 tests and other data that the menhirs belong to the period 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.- at least seven centuries before the golden age of Greece or the Etruscans. Earlier neolithic sculpture is totemic in nature, but Corsican menhirs, Grosjean noted, are "realistic and naturalistic, not stylized like Egyptian statues, and not divinities." To account for them, Grosjean has had to reconstruct an obscure artistic period. His starting point was a mysterious Mediterranean "People of the Sea," who left dome-shaped temples on Corsica, Sardinia and elsewhere...
...Derek Goldby's direction cannot keep segments of the drama from dialogyness. There is nothing logy about Brian Murray and John Wood in the taxing title roles. Every shifting breeze of the play's moods crosses their faces: they can summon up anxiety, false courage, utter bafflement, and honest fear with a flick of the lip, or a twist of the torso. They give the play's mind a body, and make R. and G. an evening for the playgoer who seeks not to forget but to know himself...