Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Our highly esteemed civilization . . . destroys the very qualities which have produced it: initiative, independence, intellectual resourcefulness. A generation . . . born in confusion, suckled in tumult, reared with cars, radios, movies, comics and picture magazines, can hardly [grow up into] reflective, sober, well-rounded young people . . .
"[It is] our business as educators to . . . provide a moral synthesis which can guide our students wisely through a mass of contradictory [views] . . . It can be provided only though freedom of inquiry and discussion, and by . . . the personal idealism of [teachers] aware of the moral and spiritual implications of knowledge...
The victor was the Brigadier's elder brother, Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri, O.B.E., commander of an armored division in India. Both the Chaudhuris are armored corps officers, and your confusion was understandable.
The steelmen pinned their hopes mainly on Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, whose special Senate subcommittee was just beginning to pry into the entire hubbub. Capehart said that the Supreme Court's decision in the cement case had thrown all of industry into confusion on prices. He thought...
A remark about "two Communist organizations" at the University dropped at last night's Young Republican Club meeting in Emerson D, quickly apawned confusion among the speakers as to just what those organizations were.