Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg gave a hint of what might be expected. "Paris was the centre of mental confusion that pervaded all Europe," wrote he. "This centre of unlimited agitation against the rebirth of the European nations ... is now firmly in the hands of National Socialist Germany. This means the...
College commencements are a flow of soul rather than a feast of reason. Last week they overflowed. The class of 1940 was cast adrift into the narrowing world with more than usual confusion of harangues, warnings, objurgations ringing in its ears.
In the past fortnight the Federal Communications Commission has handed down two momentous decisions, one releasing Frequency Modulation broadcasting from the confines of experiment, the other locking television tight within it. By awarding FM the number one television sending band (44,000-50,000 kilocycles), FCC opened the heavens to...
Everyone wanted to help. Hundreds of gossips wrote the Federal Bureau of Investigation volunteering to spy on their neighbors. To Washington flocked businessmen, big & small, proffering services. The President ordered memos drafted by all of his aides, their ideas to be boiled into a page. The Capitol combined the worried...
The Spectacle confronting General Weygand in his air reconnaissance over Flanders was one of utmost confusion. The French VII Army, the French I Army, the British Expeditionary Force, the French IX Army (all of whom swept into Belgium on the night of Germany's invasion of the Low Countries...