Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound of Zeus" tearing from Prometheus' liver the price of fire...
In this glare, New Yorkers could now seek relief from their normal confusion among Republicans, Democrats, American Laborites, Liberals, Fusionists, Socialists, Socialist-Laborites and Communists - if they were so minded.
*Always known as Sir Bernard, to avoid confusion with older cousin Rear Admiral Henry Clive Rawlings, recently in service as a convoy commodore.
But on its most localized testing ground-the great Okinawa base-there was evidence of inherent confusion. Into its 485 square miles were packed many thousands of men with many bosses: MacArthur had his ground forces, Nimitz his shore establishments and Spaatz was setting up his B-29 housekeeping command...
What purpose there was in this confusion, except to give Chancellor Hutchins more time for big thinking, was anybody's guess for the moment. But the science faculties, which include Hutchins' severest critics, saw one hopeful sign in the shuffle: up to succeed Colwell came 53-year-old...