Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author of these words is a passionately liberal Greek poet and scholar, 40-year-old Panayotis Kanellopoulos. He was in exile when he wrote them, and he knew the tragedy of Greece from his own bitter experience. As a volunteer army private, he had helped his countrymen hold back the...
Wickard, who has also been Food Administrator since last December, the nation's food distribution had veered from confusion to possible disaster-a fact highlighted by last week's nationwide meat shortage. The farmers had wrought a miracle of production last year, hoped to create another this year...
Generals and Admirals. Much of the confusion in the public mind stems from Army-Navy antagonism, by now diminished, but still flickering. One day 13 months ago Secretary Stimson told the U.S. the reason for Los Angeles' air-raid alarm: "Enemy agents flew over in 15 planes." Navy Secretary...
In Washington this week a big spotlight was thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits...
They are harsher in the movie than in the novel or the play, and so is their dramatic impact. In the movie (scenario by Nunnally Johnson, who also did Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath) the camera witnesses many important events that take place offstage in the play. The...