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Word: perplexedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yalta to Yippies. Frederick Crews, 35, professor of English at Berkeley and author of such disparate books as The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes and the fluffy satire The Pooh Perplex, coaxes a respectable number of chuckles out of America's national preoccupation with youth. The Patch Commission, "a complete, uncensored transcript of the first day's proceedings of the Presidential Emergency Commission on Child Governance Priorities," describes an attempt by its three panel members to outline a "Realpediatrik" with which to save the nation from disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...Auden's "Dear Diary" is in the style of his About the House poems, the motives of which escape me, and which I gather perplex even his most devoted critics...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...move, and then turn back as though to add an afterthought. This is Falstaff exactly, one who loves to spout a comment and then vary it, amend it, augment it, or top it -- and one who, as Milton said of Belial, "could make the worse appear/The better reason, to perplex and dash/Maturest counsels...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

...from Peanuts. The wry and wistful characters created by Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz have all but come to life for readers in the U.S. and abroad as they demonstrate daily and Sunday an engaging wisdom beyond their years, a simplistic yet somehow impressive understanding of the assorted problems that perplex their elders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

These things perplex. It gives me ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KILMER REVISITED | 10/31/1964 | See Source »

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