Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jim Kurd's hell was his confusion of conscience and cowardice. He was too cowardly to try again with his wife or even to admit sympathy for her; too cowardly to ask her to divorce him; too cowardly to admit to himself that Constance had anything to do with...
Background of Confusion. Such control was the essence of the power of the old War Industries Board of World War I, which the Army hoped the President would duplicate back in 1940. Instead came a dreary series of compromises (the Defense Commission, OPM, SPAB), culminating in WPB itself. By that...
Confusion's Masterpieces. Theodore Spencer, youthful Harvard instructor and poet (The Paradox in the Circle), is after bigger game than snarks. In Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, written with high intelligence and clarity, Spencer shows Shakespeare as the archetype of his age, in Elizabethan literature what Drake was...
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
His unsubtle comparisons of the Hitler and Roosevelt governments are mere hollow re-cchoings of the reactionary chant of the politically blind and deaf: the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Legion, the Tydings-Cox-Dics entente in Congress. His branding of Administration officials as "Nazi New Dealers" carries the...