Word: puzzlements
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...Dean Hatzis, a junior at UMass, looks toward the soccer field where "Huru" towers and says, "I hadn't really noticed it until you pointed it out. I think it's really ugly-at least they could paint it or something." Other passersby share these sentiments and express their puzzlement. "I don't know what it's a symbol of. It's all right looking. I haven't really noticed anything else," comments student Roberto Landivar. Christine Aller, a passing art major, comments that "Huru" is her favorite piece, though she doesn't necessarily like all the works that have...
...night and in the two convulsive days after, I listened to radio: NPR for the news, WOR and WABC for the commentary. In a spirit both journalistic and masochistic, I listened as the radio savants tried to make sense of the Floridation of presidential politics. I share the general puzzlement about the electoral college and the origami ballot in Palm Beach County. But I have two other questions. Will someone please explain how the members of the Radio Right can be so sure that they really are right? And why is political talk radio - in a country that has just...
...right? Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, has talked of Russian puzzlement that American intellectuals are so reluctant to give Reagan credit for his diplomatic poker playing. Genrikh Trofimenko, once a Brezhnev adviser and U.S. expert at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, has stated that "99 percent of Russian people believe that [America] won the Cold War because of your President's insistence...
...single attempt has been made to remedy the audience's puzzlement, and its seemliness is tenuous at best: Berwick has the Priests who wish Jesus dead, led by a strong-voiced Steve Toub '01, demonstrate their depravity by smoking cigarettes (Judas is offered what appears to be a Marlboro Light when he chooses to join the dark side) and performing acts of homoeroticism during their suggestive dance breaks. The world of the Apostles is one of happiness, light, and heterosexuality; that of the priests is smoky, dark, and categorically...
...There has been a bit of puzzlement that people are somehow reading this as the death knell of women's education, when in fact there's been an extraordinary increase in the health of women's college," said Barnard Director of Public Affairs Lucas Held...