Word: factualism
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...When liberals from Earl Warren to Walter Lippmann were demanding that California's Nisei be put in concentration camps for the duration of World War II, the FBI chief hotly protested, claiming that the demand for evacuation was "based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than upon factual data...
Such intellectual "branching out" seems characteristic of Gerschenkron's style of work. At the same time, he shuns the metaphysical, and prefers "operational or empirical data." This double approach to economic history, at once imaginative and factual, is reflected in his latest book, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. (H.U.P., 1962) A humanistic tone pervades the entire book; economic data is meaningfully punctuated by evidence from poets and novelists in five languages...
Towel-whipping and other vulgar abnormal sexual expressions are carried on. Of course, the Harvard Crimson denies all this in a namby-pamby whitewashing of the facts. Lacking as it does an editorial maturity that is surprising before the factual evidence of the college's own watchful guardians...
...wise, to the 'sporting theory of justice,' which makes justice a game instead of a quest for truth." He even urged the state to emulate federal courts and catch up with other states by approving modern pretrial discovery techniques and summary judgments (where there are no real factual issues) "for the removal of sham actions from the trial calendars." If Thomas surprised his listeners, who included the entire Mississippi Supreme Court, they also surprised him. "Earl, that's just what we need," said one admiring judge...
Conversely, to violate the limits of the ordinary Babbit, to act and react uniquely, is evidence of the uniqueness of self. An act to prove you are there, not logged in the monolithic square morass. In On the Road, incidents and factual details are piled on top of one another in the desperate insistence that something happened. In company the hot beats are forever retelling and reminiscing: "Member that time back in . . .?" The most insignificant tripe is described as "crazy," "exciting," "the greatest...