Word: factualism
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...Single Effect. The problem, according to Psychologist Helen Nowlis, one of the three scientists who screened the films for factual accuracy, is that their emphasis on extreme reactions to drugs "just doesn't correspond with the experience the kids are having. It's like trying to teach a two-year-old that radiators burn in the middle of the summertime. It's a crazy imbalance to stress marijuana hallucinations when 99% of the kids who try a marijuana cigarette don't get hallucinations, and it may do serious harm. A lot of heroin users...
...deep affection for Melville's poetry, perhaps too deep an affection, obscuring his ability to see its limitations. But the introductory essay, which is actually a book in itself, is a remarkably complete analysis of Melville, both as a person and as a poet. Warren explains, for instance, the factual details which inspired the creation of Billy Budd, and goes deeply into Melville's personal life, and his character. Unfortunately, when he is criticizing Melville's poetry, he tends to become bogged down, and also to lose his critical perspective...
...instances, then the SDS might have won. However, if the question was whether the mainstream of present CFIA studies and activities warrants the abolishment of that institution, then the SDS not only lost, but lost badly. For the SDS to admit the possibility of intra-institutional reform through humane, factual discussion by students and faculty, and through radical critique, would presumably be incompatible with the neat SDS model of revolutionary change. But to deny this possibility (or necessity) of rational assessment and reform where needed is not only to ignore the unrefuted preponderance of progressive contributions of the Center...
...have that "choose a tyrant for 99c" option used to sell biographies of Louis XIV and Stalin in the book section of the New York Times. As biographies become flabby compendia, so historical movies-with the notable exception of Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV -go up in factual pretension while they go down in quality. Darryl Zanuck in Tora! Tora! Tora! spent millions to reproduce historical fact, but sacrificed artistic coherence for lavish commercial packaging. Hughes' Cromwell also fails, though on a smaller scale. But even as a larger financial venture, Cromwell's soupy musical score would probably...
...difficult to inform oneself adequately on the wide range of public issues," Bok said. "One isn't going to be listened to for very long, if at all, unless he speaks with authority, from factual knowledge...