Word: factualism
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...half brothers and half sisters drift in and out of the household. One former wife is abroad with the CIA; another runs the business end of an ashram under the name Mother Devi. Talk is plentiful, but communication is illusive. "There must be something in family life that generates factual error," muses Jack. "Overcloseness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps something even deeper, like the need to survive...
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR was a bumper year for the Ministry of Truth as well as for the Ministry of Peace. Even more jarring than the flagrant and continued lying on factual matters--and the continual media acceptance of same--was the redoubled effort to drown the citizen in a sea of rhetorical democracies and freedoms, whose real counterparts are not found to be present on closer examination...
...found they had something in common: a son trying to make it in professional ballet. "Nancy Reagan became a frequent and helpful source," Barrett says. "Though she is sensitive to criticism, she is also able to take negative comments in stride, more or less, provided that the observations are factual. When I reported in 1980 that she tended to carry a grudge, she laughingly complained, then joked that she would remember that sentence for only a few years. She has a sense of humor as well as a sense of politics...
...Monopoly- like game called Class Struggle, in which workers moved a little hammer around . a board while capitalists moved a top hat. With such advocacy, wrote Bork, Ollman had made himself a public figure and therefore "must accept the banging and jostling of political debate" in which some factual assertions should be treated as "rhetorical hyperbole" and hence as opinions...
Michael W. Hirschorn attempts to present a credible analysis of the motives of those Harvard students who support President Reagan. Mr. Hirschorn, however, makes some gross misinterpretations of the Reagan supporters whom he considers too unwise to even rationalize their position with factual argument. He seems to think that Reagan supporters are unconcerned with the nuclear threat, the welfare of the poor, and other issues. In reach: many Reagan supporters are too exasperated by the violent. Democratic hostility which precludes explanation. The subtlety of explaining one's political position cannot be undertaken in a short exchange in which...