Word: confusionism
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Synecdoche, as you'll remember from seventh grade grammar class, is a figure of speech substituting the part for the whole (using "hands" for "sailors" in "all hands on deck"). Caden's parts, you could say, are irrevocably crumbling into a black hole of depression. Some of the movie's...
While the new University-wide calendar is set to take effect in less than a year, several professors expressed confusion and displeasure with the forthcoming revisions at yesterday’s faculty meeting.
After exposure to months of campaigning, debating, and television ads, most voters will be familiar with the major presidential tickets this election day. But when it comes to the vast rosters of local and state candidates running for office in November, few people are as knowledgeable—a fact...
On September 11, 2001, even as the disintegration of flaming towers forced terrified New Yorkers to flee the disaster site, thousands of medical volunteers began streaming in from the other direction. Driven by impulse and raw instinct, some already adorned in scrubs and stethoscopes, the volunteers converged on Ground Zero...
The charge was made public by the Czech magazine Respekt and by the country's Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, a state-funded historical archive and research body. The magazine and the historical institute published a contemporary police document that names Kundera as the man who had informed...