Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From that point on to its tragic end, most of Call It Treason is Happy's story. His plane had been spotted, and he found himself in a world where everybody seemed to be talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just...
Now he had written another statement, he told Mrs. Roosevelt, and he would like her to read it before it was released. "In the midst of the great confusion and the many regrettable misunderstandings and misinterpretations," he wanted to make the Roman Catholic position clear. This time the sting and...
Shouts & Tremors With no script girl handy to take it all down, there was naturally some confusion about blonde, bulb-eyed ex-Cinemactress Joan Blondell's backstage ad-libbing. Producer Harold J. Kennedy, who had hired Miss Blondell for a week's stand in Happy Birthday at Princeton...
This confusion arose from some characteristics of 20th Century man: his materialism, his clumsiness in dealing with spiritual ideas, and his bitter and understandable disappointment at the poverty that still surrounds him in spite of the technological promise of plenty.
The Communists feasted on the fuzziness and played upon the bitterness. They promised (but did not deliver) material abundance. They said that Communism was not opposed to religion. Yet they also said (more quietly)-and this was a fact -that the Communist philosophy was essentially atheistic and that the only...