Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Said Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, didactic Episcopal churchman: "The modern American university . . . will not face fundamental moral issues. . . . It ignores God and thinks and acts as though man is a creature who only needs to know the right in order to do it. The result . . . is an academic befuddlement...
He had reasons. One of them was a conclusion any oldtime dealer in Government material could reach if he took the long view: the Goldberg affair was only a small, noisy example of the confusion to come, as surpluses are worked off through private contractors. Another was that the Mead...
Since his birth in Columbus, Ohio on "a night of wild portent and high wind in 1894," James Thurber has seemed to live in a world where the edges of reality are fuzzy, the edges of fantasy insanely sharp. The principal forces at work in this world are confusion, frustration...
"We went to Greece for the second time in this war. We went with the full approval of both our great Allies. We went on invitation of the Greek Government, in which all parties, even Communists, were represented. . . . We came with good gifts in our hands : civility and assistance to...
Nevertheless, while this confusion leaves you with a garbled ideas of what you have seen, it is the very element which gives the picture whatever dramatic value it possesses. Steady continuity of over-tenseness cannot help but often attain startling emotional peaks.