Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another basic danger, according to Acheson, is the new psychology of crisis in which the unendurable situation is created so that one may profit from the circumstances of relief. He concluded that frequent usage of such psychology diminishes the possibility "that we shall listen to the often difficult analysis of...
Eleanor Roosevelt looked back on five years of answering questions for Ladies' Home Journal readers, told a radio interviewer what seemed to be on people's minds: "a great deal of confusion." She deplored attempts she discerned to "make men and women equal instead of complementing each other...
Trouble and confusion were rampant in Odessa. Moscow's lofty Izvestia sternly reported that city officials had taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The...
Peckerwood Mystics. These tiny congregations represent obscure sects with a fertile confusion of names-the Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association, Pillar of Fire, Church of Daniel's Band, etc. Observers classify them in three main types, often overlapping: 1) Pentecostal, teaching that the Holy Spirit...
French critics have compared her pre-Vittel paintings to those of Douanier Rousseau, her later pencil portraits to Fouquet's. In an age of sweeping confusion in art her pictures were at least disarmingly limited and nicely drawn.