Word: factualism
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...much Kilson's factual information that I object to," Jewett said yesterday, "as his interpretations and conclusions, though I don't know where he got some of his figures. I though some of his statements about the percentage of middle class blacks were...
...Wolfe's dandy magazine piece about the Southern stock-car circuit, The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes! Yet the movie seems to be derived less from factual material than from other old racing melodramas, where owners are crooked and slippery, drivers cool and competent, and races are really contests for the affections of a certain woman who sits watching tensely in the stands (in this case, Valerie Perrine). The hero (played by Jeff Bridges, with advice from Johnson himself) starts out running moonshine for his pappy (Art Lund) and playing chicken with the cops. Pappy gets busted...
...tough. Now it is even tougher for Wambaugh, the celebrity cop. Prisoners keep asking for his autograph. The guys at the precinct are forever drilling him about which character in what book is actually who in real life. That is perhaps one reason why Wambaugh this time chose a "factual novel"−real names and all−in the manner of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
...that Afro can ignore Harvard black students' special needs. Guinier said in an interview this month, "The issue of blackness causes a lot of tension at Harvard. Tension comes when you are not comfortable about recognizing differences. But these differences do exist and you have to recognize them as factual. In order to gain equality some remedial action has to be taken...
...embarrassing was the protest, not only in the West but in Russia itself, that Medvedev was released from the asylum after 19 days. His latest round with the Soviet government may have been provoked by his plans to publish a "factual tribute" to Solzhenitsyn entitled Ten Years After One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (TIME, May 28). It is a chronicle of the novelist's rise to fame and his later harassment by Soviet authorities after he published his bestselling novel...