Word: muddleheadedness
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"Muddleheaded." After Erhard's departure, Lyndon Johnson continued with his peace offensive. In an exchange of New Year's greetings with Nikita Khrushchev, Johnson said: " 'Peace on earth, good will toward men' need not be an illusion; we can make it a reality. The time for...
Kelen's eye was so sure that he often picked men out of a crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The...
Sly Dig. As visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After...
Instead, Mao Tse-tung took the occasion to launch his toughest, most strident blast at Moscow since the Sino-Soviet squabble began. A 60,000-word broadside in Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag declared: "Certain people, though calling themselves Marxist-Leninists, are in fact muddleheaded; they talk drivel...
Holed up in the jungles, the remaining rebel bands soon ran short of money and munitions. With Sukarno's Russian-supplied navy maintaining an effective blockade, they could not ship out the rubber, copra and coffee from the territories they controlled. Basically, the rebellion failed because Sukarno, however exasperating...