Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One the whole, the information outlined in the guide is complete but indefinite. Just for a starter take the section on VALUABLES. "The Committee cannot be responsible for valuables. Anything of this nature should be placed in the custody of one of the banks in Harvard Square." Now granted that...
A lot of critics of the U.S. Navy do not know what they are talking about. Wrote one of them (Pundit Walter Lippmann) last week: "Pressure will, I believe, have to be brought. . . ." Said he: "If the inquiry were pressed, it would be found that naval construction is in the...
Seldom had a loyal radio audience floundered in such a quandary. To add to the confusion: on the West Coast, Blue continued to carry Red Ryder, Mutual continued to carry the Lone Ranger. Said one horse-opera fancier: "All we need now is a gun fight between those two."
Pulp magnified the confusion in paper. Since wood pulp is also a raw material for rayon and for explosives, and since the Scandinavian source was cut off, a pulp shortage was expected. But North America found it was self-sufficient in wood pulp, so long as it could not export...
Often the blind develop a telepathic sense of touch. Mary McCarthy's remarkably cold, black-jettish brightness at socio-psychological criticism similarly seems to proceed at least in part from the lack of another faculty: the faculty which theologians still call charity. Nowhere, in the whole of the volume...