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...first time, but they are recognizable as old friends or enemies, and the most bizarre events are totally credible. The question of truth never arises; it is only the interpreter of the dream who is confused. The reader -or dream interpreter -will have to sup ply his own factual journalism...
...Your Feb. 4 cover story on Dean Rusk and the struggle in South Viet Nam is the best and most factual story on this subject that I have read since coming back from five months in South Viet Nam. Dean Rusk is, the best Secretary of State in the past 30 years...
...article on the Nieman Fellowship program and Fellows written by Philip Ardery, suffers more than most such Crimson efforts from garbled facts, inaccurate reporting and erroneous conclusions. It is striking example of parajournalism at its worst, complete with neatly evoked atmosphere and gross factual errors...
...fond of playing the "animal, vegetable, or mineral" game with history books. An animal is lively and generally fun, but it doesn't have much to do with the facts and tends to run away with itself. A vegetable book has firm factual roots that keep it from running around but at least it's alive. A mineral book is solid ground--sometimes rocky reading, but always right...
...Lenin is unconvincing, but more important, it is uncommitted. Be The Bolsheviks a history or a biography, it deals with a period whose major issues were as much moral as intellectual, economic, and political. When it comes to handling moral questions, a book need more than a pile of factual truths. The author himself must make an entrance and make some decisions. This is the time for the book to come alive. But Ulam fails to appear, and his book never rises above painstaking historical geology