On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:15:13 +0100, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:

Er ... "Amphibolism is the integration of catabolism(complex break down into small molecules) and anabolism(complex synthesized from small)." [www.answers.com] ?

Alternatively, "amphibolism" can be understood as proneness to ambiguity in speech, cf. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amphiboly I should note that although lexical ambiguity can be called an amphiboly, a more specific term would be "equivocation".

By the way, did he have athletics (emeritus) tenure?

I don't know.