Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misnomer. To Stern, the point is scarcely worth arguing. "It isn't a sports show, it's entertainment for the same kind of people who listen to Jack Benny," he says, then adds defensively: "If there's a story that I know to be factual, I'll say so-but that's seldom the case...
Freedom in Concord. At first glance, Professor Rusk's biography seems to tilt the figure of Emerson as Americans have come to know him. The work of a 60-year-old professor at Columbia University, it is a massive, detailed, thorough, factual study, the first biography in 60 years to reflect a careful sifting of Emerson's unpublished manuscripts and papers. Heretofore, the standard source books on Emerson have been the work of his literary executors, James Elliot Cabot and Edward
...what is happening in the arena. In describing the fight, the author presents the thoughts and feelings of the matador. At times, it is difficult to tell exactly what the bull has done, but the rapid tempo and the strong emotional grip of this description make up for the factual problem...
Some people of the Southwest believe that the coyote never dies, some that the yowling beasts can talk, in Indian languages and Mexican-Spanish. Nobody is better qualified to round up all such legends, and more factual reports on the canny coyote, than Texas' shock-haired Professor Dobie, who knows as much about the Southwest as any man (Coro-nado's Children, Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver), and who has, moreover, lectured about it at Britain's Cambridge University (TIME...
...nebulousness" is, of course, a function of the newness of our science: but nebulousness exists on the frontiers of even the most advanced and rigorous of sciences,-- which we are not. Those of a "factual" inclination, therefore, have every right to suspect that they may be unhappy in any science. We do suggest, however, that even at our present relatively primitive level of theoretical development, our work is of some value to those interested in understanding important areas of behavior. Norman Birnbaum Michael Olmsted Teaching Fellows in Social Relations