Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, used last Sunday's New York Times to lash out at what he calls "the confusion, waste and uncertainty of American education." He advocated a plan to award the bachelor's degree at the end of Sophomore year at college, thereby...
Columbus' Journal is also missing. But a copy found its way to Columbus' contemporary biographer, Bartolome de Las Casas, who abstracted from it the text we have today. The same or another copy was used by Ferdinand Columbus (the Admiral's bastard son), who quoted long passages...
Today we find war waged on a scale more vast than ever known in the world before. What has happened to the contemporary American play-wright in the midst of this confusion and perplexity? Only Eugene O'Neill remains apart from the turmoil, continuing work on a gigantic cycle of...
Worse than the cost and waste was the confusion. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt got fed up. He set the Office of Facts & Figures at the top, as No. 1 information agency of the Government; the same time he muzzled his Cabinet by ordering that all speeches and statements must be...
But a great deal of this enthusiasm appears to be running to waste, from sheer confusion, and lack of information. While a majority of upper classmen feel that "during the war students should spend most of their time on specific training for war," they also want the universities to concentrate...