Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Will the U.S. Do? The confusion extended to nearly every Italian. People with not enough money for proper food bought newspaper after newspaper, pathetically looking for guidance. Impartially they read Communist, Socialist, Vatican, Monarchist or Republican papers-anything that might offer a glimmer of light. A generation of corrupt...
The Bitter 'Arf. Official fanfare seemed to have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the...
On the eve of his marriage, the mildly dimwitted Earl of Harpenden provides a potted U.S. lieutenant with a lodging for the night and a discarded ladylove. The lieutenant, however, mistakes the earl's fiancée (Anne Burr) for the fancy woman, and the two promptly fall in...
Although a bit inadequate, we toss in our bit of confusion by suggesting that: sanitation difficulties, not Dutch tile expeditions, are responsible for the demolition work; and that a jealous Ibis, not hunger-maddened 'Poonsters, did in the dove, a sadder and flatter bird.
Some of the causes of delinquency are crudely underlined and reiterated; some of the delinquent episodes are dragged in by the hair. It will remain a mystery forever, for instance, just how or why Miss Granville gets killed in a roadhouse brawl. But a memorable amount of adolescent confusion and...