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...unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship of the line and antiques that are a mere four decades...
...that time, British authorities transported the 1,200 inhabitants of Diego Garcia to Mauritius, while retaining control of the atoll. Now Mauritius' Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, says he intends to press a claim of ownership of Diego Garcia upon Britain. In London diplomats expressed some puzzlement at the claim, since Diego Garcia was never officially part of Mauritius, even in colonial days...
...Harvard, the cost of such glory has risen dramatically; and, as seems fashionable these days, the price just keeps climbing. Unfortunately, the Harvard leadership has taken the same type of approach to athletics as Jimmy Carter has taken to the economy: a sort of wide-eyed, respectfully distressed puzzlement, one that lacks any true definition of action and invites an accompanying rampage of rising costs...
When Kissinger says that, even with the benefit of hindsight, he is not sure what he should have done seven years ago, the Carter Administration can be forgiven for some puzzlement about how to proceed now, as it tries to deal prudently with undemocratic, potentially unstable regimes...
Graham's ministry, as his critics have emphasized, became utterly entangled with the powers of this earth. He was close to Richard Nixon for years, but at last grew retchingly ill when he read the transcripts of the White House tapes. After much puzzlement, he blamed Nixon's behavior on "sleeping pills and demons." Graham has always expressed a truculent love of authority, a desire for social discipline, for a certain orderliness that he seems to consider almost a necessity of the soul. He has been capable of aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity...