Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real case which could not be more exciting, the picture presents a wealth of argument towards "One World." Yet this is not the painfully obvious propaganda that Hollywood is so prone to wallow in. The moral is not forced down our throats, but contained naturally in a factual document, and thereby carries all the more weight. As a matter of fact, the film had its premiere before the UN at Lake Success. Movies like this are what make the condition of the American moving picture industry seem not so hopeless after all. E.P.R...
...late great Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead: "What's more important, ideas or things'?" Said Whitehead: "Why, I should imagine ideas about things." Deeply imbedded in U.S. education is a contrary attitude: ideas are not trustworthy; facts, especially "all the facts," are. Have the hairy-chested factual gourmands who think they want all the facts ever faced a real plateful of them...
Instead of turning the story over to others in his 15-man Washington bureau, Chief Andrews set to digging it out himself. His dispassionate study of the case of "Mr. Blank" filled six columns of the Herald Tribune on Nov. 2. Factual as a cookie recipe, it struck a more telling blow for liberty than any arm-waving leftist could have landed, and it caused a change in State Department policy...
...right level of grade for each student. By the time they have reached their Junior year most students have been forcibly made to realize that the premium on a majority of non-scientific final examinations is on ability to organize and to write clearly more than on quantity of factual knowledge or understanding of the material in a course...
...article in TIME, Dec. 22, concerning me in connection with Forever Amber and the Legion of Decency, cannot possibly be classed as factual reporting. You gave the mischievous impression that I slyly maneuvered the Legion into placing that film in the "C" or condemned classification for the sake of box-office stimulation, when you said that I "guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance." Your guess as to my guess was completely wrong as to the facts. Let me state these facts...