Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Into the Pattern." For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher...
The fire-eating, conscienceless nationalist speaks shrilly from the past. Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia...
Doubt & Confusion. Bishop De Wolfe explained that his decision had been based primarily upon consideration of "the pastoral relationship." Wrote he: "I believe the Rev. William Howard Melish, assistant minister, to have been . . . most mistaken in what he believes to be the pastoral application of his ministry. He has allowed...
Bendix plays a morose, bumbleheaded factory hand with a careful blend of "bathos, confusion and corny humor. His enemy is his landlady (Beulah Bondi); his daughter is being courted by the boss's son and the landlady's nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when...
During his recent visit to Tokyo, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked some of the newspaper boys to drop by at the U.S. embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks...