Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hutchins gave approving pats on the head to the report's attacks on specialization and on racial, religious and economic discrimination in higher education. But for its "confusion" and its literary style (". . . reads like a Fourth-of-July oration in pedaguese . . . skirts the edge of illiteracy") Hutchins had only...
Before the count was announced by the chair the convention knew full well what had happened. Dewey had 515 votes, 33 short of the nomination. But the coalitionists, desperate as they were, would not give in yet. They had agreed to ask for a recess after the second ballot. But...
The sun was up by the time Warren returned to his hotel. Still unshaven, he talked briefly with the California delegation. Out at Convention Hall, the delegates idled in confusion, sweat and irritation, while the conference went on in Room 808. At 11:30 Dewey called Warren, told him he...
Brass Bands. The arrival of candidates heightened the noise and confusion. Harold Stassen got in first. His welcoming party cheered at the wrong railway car, found itself greeting Alf Landon instead. After that, the pumping of brass bands, the milling of the curious, the sound of police sirens and applause...
Maneuvers on the Border. Last week the confusion might have pleased Gavam, for it might persuade the Shah that only Gavam could form a stable government. And the confusion was certainly pleasing to Russia; Persia's series of helpless, do-nothing governments permitted Russia to pose as the hope...