Word: puzzlement
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...journalism's vast landscape dwells a strange colossus-part newspaper, part showman-that has its keepers buzzing with puzzlement and concern. Like churchgoing and weekend barbecues, the Sunday newspaper is a national institution. It is big, boisterous and, for the most part, glowing with financial health. But for all that, it presents a growing problem not only for the men who put it together but for the readers who scatter it across the living-room floor each Sunday. How is the Sunday newspaper changing-and why? What do its editors want it to be? Is it aimed...
...explain away their puzzlement, economists drag out a raft of possible reasons for the wayward consumer, including unseasonable September heat and storms, less aggressive selling by auto dealers fearful that Detroit strikes might leave them with no cars to deliver, and a 2% drop in August housing starts that meant less demand for heavy appliances. But a more basic explanation comes from University of Michigan Economist George Katona, whose Survey Research Center believes that the consumer has lost much of his confidence in the resiliency of U.S. business. "Not surprising," says Katona, "after two recessions [1958 and 1960-61] occurring...
...York Times, which admitted that his administration has been "shot through with an accumulation of defects and scandals." But, said the Times, Wagner was unlike Levitt in that he was at least "free of the old clubhouse control." The Republican New York Herald Tribune noted the endorsement "with puzzlement" under the editorial headline: OH, COME NOW, NEW YORK TIMES...
...called "emerging nations" have been emerging all over the front pages in recent years, causing concern and puzzlement to statesmen and newspaper readers alike. As public interest in these areas of the world has risen, so too has the literary output of scholars and journalists who specialize (or pretend to specialize) in the field. Part of this literature has confined itself to the American or Western reaction to the emerging nations--dealing in precise (C. L. Sulzberger's What's Wrong with Our Foreign Policy) or imprecise (The Ugly American) terms with the weaknesses of American policy in Asia, Africa...
...Crooner Andy Russell, a friend of Gleason who speaks restaurant French, when Jackie asked what one might call "a poor soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...