Word: bafflements
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...thirds of this Canadian country trio. Dad Steve sings harmony and co-wrote many of the tunes, which echo the sweet simplicity of Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. Don't I Have a Heart gives a nice airing to Tyler's pubescent fretfulness, a mix of bravado and bafflement ("I don't have a clue,/ But don't I have a heart?"). And Amanda is the true vocal goods--her precocious alto dusky and authoritative--plus, she yodels. The whole CD is a lovely throwback. Innocence has rarely sounded so seductive...
...Deane's narrative seems so plausible because he immerses the reader in all the murk and fog that his narrator experiences. The book is a slow starter, because all the ignorance and bafflement the boy would naturally feel in his extreme youth are certainly shared by the unwitting reader, who must view the store through the narrator's skewed vision...
...when "Beatlemania," an obscure hysteria that had erupted in Britain the year before, suddenly jumped the Atlantic and took instant root here. First, in January, came the spine-tingling arrival of I Want to Hold Your Hand--a great, convulsive rock-'n'-roll record that, to the bafflement of many a teen garage band across the land, actually had more than three chords (five more, to be exact--incredible). Then one week later, She Loves You careened onto the charts--wooo! The week after that came the headlong rush of Please Please Me, and by April, the top five singles...
...deepest fissures were those within us. Whether you went or not, that war put a crack in you because of the impossibility of finding an untainted response to it. If you protested the war, you couldn't help worrying about the bafflement and pain you were causing those in danger, and their families. How did you make peace with the fact that, however unintentionally, you were encouraging a hard, often murderous enemy who was doing his best to kill boys you'd grown up with? If you went, you had to notice that the government we were trying to save...
...bafflement goes beyond the controversy over whether the Fed is doing the right thing at this particular time. Isn't the government inherently working at cross-purposes to itself? Clinton's answer -- that the Fed can safely raise interest rates without reducing growth or job creation -- is no answer at all. The purpose of raising interest rates is to slow the economy. If it doesn't do that, it hasn't worked...