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...expression of a point of view, however, raises major difficulties. Some subjects, such as natural science courses, are not readily adapted to the expression of a controversial viewpoint. In other fields, many professors, deeply immersed in the complexities of their specialties, feel that any particular orientation would distort history and disfigure art. Knowing all the brambles which invalidate any particular theoretical path, they search for a close approximation of scholarly objectivity. This seems important, not only to avoid spoonfeeding ovine undergraduates, but also because in a world of rapid fluctuation, the only truth is a relative one, the only value...
...couldn't see any purpose served by your article except to infer that Ed Murrow . . .was deliberately attempting to distort the situation...
...Crust of the earth. Variations in the earth's gravitational pull will distort the orbit slightly. Thus irregularities in the earth's crust and the slight bulge at the earth's equator can be determined more accurately...
...duke are "happy and busy people," 3) Britain's royal family and common folks treated her "very meanly" in disallowing her the title of Her Royal Highness. Said Amory: "I told the duchess I didn't mind omitting facts, but . . . I wouldn't distort them. She wanted . . . a soap opera...
TIME has a right to interpret as it chooses evidence relative to whether or not there was a security violation Dec. 17, 1950 in Korea regarding news that Air Force F-86 Sabre jets had arrived in Korea. It has none to distort or "load" in favor of one set of witnesses what facts came out, as it clearly has done in its July 25 article "Skeletons in the City Room." TIME correctly reported that I testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that all correspondents in Korea "in" on the Sabre jet story and their first brush with...