Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children." Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts convened an unofficial hearing on the U.S. dissent, which he denounced as "shameful." Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon warned that the vote could send "a message of indifference to the sanctity of human life." Outside the U.S., the reaction was more puzzlement than anger, though even London's conservative Financial Times declared, "It is special pleading of the worst kind to invoke the right to free expression and free competition if a potential danger to life and health has been identified...
Given all this, there ought to be less puzzlement than there is about the Soviet decision to call a halt to Soyuz '81 after leading the world to believe that an invasion was at hand. One theory has it that the Soviets originally made a decision to intervene, and then changed their minds. A second is that the exercises were a contingency measure. Yet there is a third way of looking at it; that the threat was the invasion. The Soviets withdrew because they felt they had temporarily accomplished their purpose. Even if they decide to invade after...
Still, the evening was a bit of a puzzlement. Even though the Ravel was a success, why does a major opera house try to produce dance, a project like Parade, when the American Ballet Theater will occupy its very premises in two months' time and George Balanchine reigns just across Lincoln Center Plaza...
...Lifton has this triple entry of caskets (once by the gray casket and twice by the bronze) well documented, he admits to puzzlement at how the body got out of the morgue after its first entry, to rejoin the bronze coffin in which it had left Dallas. The report by the two FBI agents, which was never seen by the Warren Commission staff but had been sent directly to the National Archives, gave Lifton one clue. At one point, they wrote, "all personnel with the exception of medical officers needed in the taking of photographs and X rays were requested...
...would suddenly break into tears in the middle of the day. "A garden-variety Nobel prizewinner would not get this kind of treatment," said a teacher in Oxford, England. Across the Atlantic, in schools and on college campuses, those from other generations showed almost as great a sense of puzzlement, even distance, as of loss. Gretchen Steininger, 16, a junior at Evergreen Park High School in suburban Chicago, said, "I recognize...