Word: confusionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Within the various departments of the faculty, confusion reigns supreme on the tutorial issue. Faculty members admit that current practices are no better than stop-gaps, but there is little discussion of better programs and little planning for what must be a brighter future.
The election had been quiet and unemotional, but there was no mistaking the fact that the majority of Americans had cast a protest vote. It was a cold but nonetheless angry voice raised against many things: price muddles, shortages, black markets, strikes, Government bungling and confusion, too much Government in...
Americans must analyze this bi-partisan foreign policy carefully. Republicans achieved the majority in Congress with precious little said about foreign affairs. Thus the confusion within the G.O.P. on just what form American internationalism should take went by unnoticed. Distaste for Truman's domestic polities gave rise to an imposing...
The trouble was partly a confusion of words. Everyone talked about "depression," "recession," and the new favorites, "readjustment" and "shake-out," as if they all meant the same thing. They did not.*
You state that "a G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature." You should remember that most of the executive branch has been appointed by one man with the advice of personally chosen advisors. The...