Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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... I was in no way connected with this incident. This event involved another person on the University faculty and a confusion in names on your part has caused this serious error. . . .
Immediate objective of the G.O.P. high command is to capture control of the House and perhaps even of the Senate next year. Realistic GOPsters admit that in this battle the state of the U.S. economy will play an important part-i.e., if the U.S. is in a slump or...
Hold That Blonde! (Paramount) is a direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a...
James M. Cain, concocter of literary 20-minute eggs (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce), settled down in New Orleans to write another novel, described book critics as "ex-police reporters gone highbrow ... simply weird in their ignorance." He complained that "all critics confuse themselves with God," and concluded...
A great deal of confusion has resulted from the fact that an extraneous argument, incompletely stated, was used in this space Tuesday. It is obvious to anyone who read the article in the last issue that I feel the world would be no worse off if every piece of late...