Word: factualism
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...Committee will release the results of its investigation to the students so that they may appeal the decision on two grounds: the factual findings-whether the students actually did what the deans charge-and the punishment decision itself. The students will be asked to submit any appeals as soon as possible, but the Committee probably will not adhere too strictly to any time limit for appeals...
Although the committee will not formally impose any punishment, its "factual report" to the Corporation will serve as a de facto indictment. The committee's task in preparing that report will not be as easy as investigating professor guilty of simple criminal offenses. Like everyone else in the University, Faculty members acted to implement their own political beliefs during the political crisis that gripped Harvard. None of those acts clearly crossed the line that separates extended dissent from criminal action. To now single out a few Faculty members because their credoes led them to "unacceptable" conduct would be unjust...
Bethell scores the CRIMSON for "coloring the community's opinion." "The events of April showed," he says in his Analysis, "an urgent need for an apolitical, factual news publication, edited for the entire community." Meanwhile, he makes do by crediting his facts to the CRIMSON three times in the first two pages of his article...
...about my doing research for the Air Force on student movements, I would like to clarify this as well. That story as originally published in the CRIMSON was written by a member of the staff from the notes prepared by another man who interviewed me and hence contained many factual errors, for which the interviewer subsequently apologized to me. The story of my Air Force grants in simple. I had begun looking into the role of student movements as a force for social change under grants from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations. The director of the office of Behavioral Research...
MACDONALD claimed Wolfe's style was all a sham. He called it "parajournalism--a bastard form, having it both ways, exploiting the factual authority of journalism and the atmospheric license of fiction." He could not accept Wolfe as PR man extraordinary, whose technique is to exaggerate--sometimes even to invent--fact in an effort to get at the truth. And, in certain cases, Wolfe has made notable gaffs--where the New Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken...