Word: factualism
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...Clarify factual statements: At the moment there are no certain figures on the annual number of abortions in the country, and calculations vary from one abortion in every 5 births to one in every 20. (The conference will also take up the socio-economic aspect of abortion, which has been largely overlooked...
...magic of unselfish parents who are loving and faithful to each other and to their offspring. The girl who fears motherhood does not lack accurate information so much as she lacks the reassuring experience, in her own life, of that genuine mother love "that casteth out fear." All the factual information in the world shrivels beside the power, for good or evil, of early emotional experience...
...Polish-born author, a naturalized U.S. citizen, says that he drew upon the recollections of 700 Poles, Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer...
...intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial exploitation of sex, tabloid reporting of sordid sexual occurrences, wholly unsupervised after-school occupations. To fill the void left by the old safeguards, youngsters must be given a bulwark of factual knowledge and orientation...
...this the defense offered no factual opposition. Morgan argued that the case should be thrown out on a variety of grounds, ranging from constitutional guarantees of free speech to the fact that WACs are excluded from court-martial panels. "It is the right, indeed the duty," said Morgan, "of all Americans to think, to dream and to talk." However, the most serious charge against Levy is that he refused to carry out a direct order given in writing...