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The following article makes no attempt to be a 20-minute Chem 101 crash course for the perplexed, but, it is hoped, should at least provide you with counter-ammunition the next time someone corners you at a party and starts dropping terms such as stoichiometry as the temperature of your beer rises slowly but inexorably from cellar to attic.
I read (Dia)critic's Corner [XXIII, 1] with great interest but was perplexed by the examples at the top of the second column on page 1, as I counted four misprints at a first reading (œ for æ) and my feeling was confirmed by checking Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary .
Bill Clinton, and remains perplexed that the Journal editorial page won't.
) The book, they say, is a witty sendup of therapeutic literature, and it also serves as a "seriously legitimate guide for the perplexed" (Benito Rakower, the Washington Post ). Critics also recommend it as a sort of highbrow Cliff's Notes : "You don't need to have read Proust in order to read this book; in fact, once you've read de Botton you don't need to read it at all" (Richard Klein, Voice Literary Supplement ).
How can one overlook the abruptly truncated laugh, for instance, that conveys a perplexed intellect?