Word: puzzlements
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...most fashionable reactions to The Cocktail Party is to be bored, to affect puzzlement, and to assert that other people like it because it is fashionable to like T. S. Eliot. Actually there is no reason for this manifestation of reverse snobbery, for a nodding acquaintance with the views of Mr. Eliot and a quick perusal of the published form of the play (Lamont stocks several copies) suffice to prepare one for a most stimulating and interesting evening of theatre...
...hours, one day last week, 32,000 little Londoners, aged 10½ to 11½, sat at their school desks puzzling over such questions as these. Their puzzlement was fierce, as if they thought their very lives depended on their answers. In their estimate of the seriousness of the test, the young Londoners were pretty much right...
Last week Alice's admirers had a chance to share her puzzlement. Two different film versions of Alice, both billed as Alice in Wonderland, appeared almost simultaneously on U.S. movie screens...
...that he had not always been right in the past. At one point, he said: "I don't believe the military has ever solved an international problem, nor will. It just expands, perpetuates and breeds hate and suspicion." When a Senator asked a puzzler, Wedemeyer would admit to puzzlement. "Senator," he told Oregon's Wayne Morse in one exchange, "that is a good question-you are asking damned good ones...
...creative job. Although she got off to a slow start, she warmed up to her role in the later acts and succeeded quite nicely in fulfilling the requirements of a Henry James grand fence. John Mannich was amusing as Captain Prime. His friendly sheepishness and flashes of puzzlement at his plight were fun to watch...