Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If the average U.S. citizen said the hell with it and went for a long, tire-consuming joyride last week, it was small wonder. As the week wore on, he was subjected to more confusion than ever about the rubber shortage. Some moderately good news of ersatz tire prospects was...
Famed for his work in analyzing foreign propaganda and dangerous rumours on the home front, Knapp has been in charge of the Rumour Clinte, a feature of the Boston Herald. The Clinic takes up typical rumours which are current at the time and tears them down to show their potential...
Each defense agency was born out of confusion, and died of strangulation by red tape. Each left unsolved the great root question: Should civilians or the military allocate war-scarce materials? WPB and Donald Nelson insisted that civilians should do the allocating, that the civilian economy must be protected, or...
Main problem of the modern city planner, according to Planner Saarinen's philosophy, is to restore to the modern city some of that ease, convenience and organic unity that it lost when the whims of Renaissance architecture and the chaotic growth of industrialism destroyed its cellular form. But the...
In the first place, the symphony had practically no structure or coherence, nor did it make up for this with strong melody or color. The themes were commonplace and thinly stretched out over 70 minutes of pointless rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a...