Word: factualism
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Into the House of Commons last week strode Edward Heath to launch his first parliamentary assault on the government as Britain's new Tory leader. It was something of a disappointment - a long and factual speech that even his supporters found some what on the dull side. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who loves the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate, poured scorn on the Tories, dubbed Heath as "this Sir Galahad" who, he claimed, had deliberately misled the voters last year about the nation's economy...
...educate a student; the best he can do is teach the student how to learn, and the worst he can do is concentrate on training. "Training," said Dr. Berry, "is something that we can do to seals, to dogs, and-alas!-to medical students. Training is the acquisition of factual knowledge and techniques, which blots out education. It is better to send medical students into the world knowing less, but understanding better how to learn...
...picture of the beheaded man was very gruesome and sickening-however, I cannot understand why people object to these factual photographs. Such pictures should be plastered across the front pages of every newspaper across the United States in order to impress upon citizens the brutality and futility of wars...
...neither "ancient enough nor modern enough," to serve as the church's sole confession of faith, and that what the committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism has made it clear that the Bible is not inerrant in all factual details. Dowey argued that to call the Bible "the normative witness," rather than infallible, is to assert its power as "the norm or authority over all other witness," but he, also conceded, after hearing strong conservative criticism, that some better word might have to be found...
...Joint Center "had nothing to do with the policy recommendations of The Federal Bulldozer," Wilson emphasizes. The only thing that would have kept the book from publication is "a factual statement that showed its assertions to be inaccurate...