Word: factualism
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...There's hardly any sentence in history books with an active voice anymore," Fitzgerald said, citing textbooks' attempts to describe the Vietnam War without implicating the U.S. government or distorting factual events...
...easel, studiously painting still lifes and landscapes. Instead, his art came out of his life, out of his long walks in the wilderness, out of the miles he has traversed in places as diverse as England, Africa and the Arctic. His first works of art were direct factual documentations of his wanderings--maps and photographs carefully recording the trips. Sometimes Long would establish a program; in "164 Stones, 164 Miles" he walked across Ireland, placing a nearby stone on the road at every mile along...
...self-respecting author would quote articles from The American Spectator at length and then reveal--several times, in fact--that he wrote them. But then again, the man who wrote this book boasts that he has been published in international editions of Reader's Digest. There are numerous factual errors; on a list of obstacles that stand between the candidates and the conventions, Bakshian overlooks the New York primary. Where Bakshian is at his best--conversational, witty, on target--he is quoting liberally from people who really know their stuff and adding in analysis that, given two months...
...states were slow to reallocate congressional seats so that each district would have the same average population. The 1960 census dramatically revealed the failing: Georgia's rural Ninth District, for example, had a population of 272,154, while the urban Fifth had 823,680. These figures provided a factual basis for the "one man, one vote" decisions in 1963 and 1964 by the U.S. Supreme Court. They changed congressional and state districting -and the fate of the politicians-across the country...
DIED. Jay Anson, 58, scriptwriter whose allegedly factual 1977 thriller, The Amityville Horror, about a family's experiences in a haunted house on New York's Long Island, sold millions of copies before being made into a film last year; after heart surgery; in Palo Alto, Calif...