Word: factualism
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...team's victims turned out to be a coordinator of activities among Black September, the I.R.A. and Basque separatists. His replacement: the mysterious terrorist known as "Carlos," who in 1975 engineered the kidnaping of representatives of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The book provides the factual grist for a gross of paperback thrillers...
...covering letter from Professor Anderson called to my attention that his notes of June 5, 1973 had made it difficult for him to recall precise details in my testimony and asked me for corrections and comments. On May 6, 1974 I wrote Professor Anderson a long letter, correcting several factual errors and calling to his attention that the "cut and paste" reporting of my testimony and, I assumed, that of others as well was fraught with ambiguity. In his reply, dated May 18, 1974, he acknowledged that this was the case but asserted that all would be made clear...
Carter advisers were concerned over the political fallout, but they should also worry about their own efficiency. Playboy insists that it agreed to allow the candidate or his aides to review the unedited transcripts of the taped interview-to correct factual errors, they maintain, but other interviewees have been allowed to make substantial changes. The Carter camp never asked for the transcripts, says Playboy Assistant Managing Editor Barry Golson. He also insists that he made several calls to Press Secretary Jody Powell to arrange for him to review the transcripts, but that Powell never returned the calls. Journalists familiar with...
...Kunta's initial difficulty understanding and respecting American-born blacks, the selling of his daughter to the owner of a distant plantation, rape by her new master, and the economic struggle they faced in the post-slavery period, are all episodes which cover a broad range of emotional and factual material, yet Haley describes them with such natural and simple sensitivity that one scene flows smoothly into the next and leaves plenty of time for the reader to absorb all that has transpired...
...reservations about their technique. Now these journalists have apparently done a superb job and it's a damned good book, in the sense that nobody yet has contradicted it or even tried...they must have it pinned down very very well. But obviously you're not getting a totally factual report on all these conversations. The problem with this is, if this is successful and we don't raise objections, the next guy to come along and do that may not have anything like that responsibility and then what...