Word: factualism
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...core looked. By early April 1964, rumors of the strike had flitted from Timmins to Toronto to Wall Street. When the New York Times printed a story of reports of a "great deposit" found at Timmins by Texas Gulf, the company promptly slapped the report down as "without factual basis." In a press release on April 12, the company discounted the Timmins core: "Any statement as to the size and grade of ore would be premature and probably misleading...
...want it exposed. Yet an American reporter must believe, if he believes nothing else, that the United States has never sur- vived in times of crisis by playing ostrich. Too much policy and too deep a commitment had already been made in Vietnam on the basis of too little factual information...
First, the quotation--"We are graduating government majors who have not read Freud or Weber,"-- (whether or not it was meant as a criticism) gave factual evidence to my contention that the department was neglecting the approaches of political science making use of the insights of psychology and sociology. A reader would interpret the statement as a criticism only if he felt that such approaches were significant enough to merit attention in the Government Department...
...find your largely negative comments about clergy participation in the demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery [March 26] reasonably factual but unpardonably superficial. We went to Alabama chiefly in response to Martin Luther King's call for help. Responding to desperate calls for help would seem to be appropriate clerical behavior. We went as an act of deliberate identification with those in need whose cause is just, to lend encouragement and support, and hopefully to redeem in part our past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy...
...between coherence and liberality has produced some interesting experiments and a certain amount of creative ferment. Junior tutorial has not, however, given most students what they really need: a chance to gather around a single, well-defined topic all the methods picked up in sophomore tutorial and all the factual material learned in regular course work...