Word: factualism
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...crises which Mr. Barzun deplores from a set of statistics. Attitudes are his material, and he often trusts his luck to pick out the signs of the times on campus. The footnotes he supplies are more in the nature of anecdotes, while an impressive bibliography refers readers to more factual (and timid) efforts...
...read it. We do not question his veracity; the fact that there is fundamental agreement between the CEP resolution and the recommendations of the Army ROTC Instructor Group by no means implies collusion. On the contrary, it seems rather irresponsible of the CEP to have ignored the wealth of factual material in that elaborate memo, and in fact highly insulting to the ROTC instructors who must have spent months compiling the documents and preparing their case. One must hope that student opinions were not also treated so cavalierly by the CEP. The CRIMSON interview with Mr. Wilcox (10 January) suggests...
...Army ROTC Instructor Group to persuade whomever they please. It is disturbing, however, that the recipients of this memorandum chose to keep it out of the hands of Harvard students and Faculty at large, when the most superficial examination of its contents would reveal that they included factual material necessary for an informed decision about ROTC. This kind of secrecy is intolerable in an academic community that places a premium upon rational choice based on knowledge of the relevant facts. It was not until opponents of ROTC discovered a copy, more than one month after it was released, that...
...Styron's novel has been given a Pulitzer Prize. Considering the wide critical success the book enjoyed, this result was foreseeable. Most of the novel's acclaim is explained to be due to these virtues: the human validity of its hero, the historical veracity of its factual information, and the merit of its social impact...
Ronald Ziegler, 29, as a special assistant concentrating on press relations will not be a press secretary in the tradition of James Hagerty or Bill Moyers. His role will be largely restricted to giving factual briefings-as he did during the campaign-rather than offering interpretation on a policy level. Before becoming an advertising account executive under Haldeman, Ziegler served in Nixon's 1962 campaign...