Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phrase "extensive business dealings with high-ranking officials" to describe my honest and on-the-record business transactions is at best an exaggeration and, at worst, a lie. Obviously enamored by the myth which dictates that bigger is better, the writer chose to use the word "extensive" when in fact there is no justification for use of that word in this context. The misuse of that word may sell copy, but it prostitutes the function of a free press and crucifies communication of the truth...
...quoted remarks of Michael Turk, let it be noted initially that he and I disagree on just about everything. What I find most disturbing in his remarks is his determination to replace fact with fiction when he said, "It's very disquieting to see instances of public officials providing favors, particularly financial ones." Does he know something I don't? Often times, people predicate of others activities similar in nature to activities in which the speaker or writer is a participant. Is this what underlies and rests at the root of Mr. Turk's statement that "...questions of appearance...
...late Adlai Stevenson who said that public opinion is the sovereign of us all. I have always believed that the press has an enormous responsibility in helping to form a sound public opinion rooted in truth and fact and not in conjecture, innuendo and/or rumor. The writer of this article did little to form such public opinion. That was due in part to his being duped by double-speak by some and in part to the paucity of his individual investigative initiative, which went no deeper than to quote The Boston Phoenix. Such limitation suggests a less than maximal presence...
...fact, several biographical attempts--conducted by then-Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Mark DeWolfe Howe, one of Holmes' legal secretaries, and Grant Gilmore, a professor of law at Yale--have been made since Holmes' death in 1935. But until Sheldon Novick's brilliant and illuminating examination of Holmes' life was released, no one had succeeded in mapping the life of the Olympian jurist...
...fact, the eight autobiographies seem to have been chosen more for their diversity quotient than for their relevance to the style-versus-truth dichotomy which the author has posed as his central question...