Word: muddlement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward...
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