Word: muddleheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a runaway Wagnerian opera, Fountainhead lumbers from crisis to crisis in a hysterical crescendo of muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed...
So Little Money. Later, during a joint hitch on the Baltimore News, Cub Reporters Luce and Hadden finished blueprinting their plans for TIME which they had begun in earnest at Camp Jackson. By stock subscriptions ranging from $500 to $20,000, they raised $86,000 and launched TIME with a...
Children of Revolution. By then, the party line had been changed. The orders from Moscow were to soft-pedal talk of revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland...
¶I try to see their point of view; you are muddleheaded; he is a crypto-Communist.
Almost every day of his hunted existence was a new complex of calculations and risks; a single muddleheaded moment might have ruined him. Despite the author's simplicity, the reader gradually becomes aware of his extraordinary energy and coolness. But the book is not only an adventure story but...