Word: factualism
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...historical background is harmful, as well as helpful, to his book. Rowse is accustomed to working with facts, and even when working with non-factual questions he is used to writing bluntly and without qualification. He makes no attempt to conceal his hatred of the Puritans, for instance. They are "fanatics," "frightful kill-joys," and "obnoxious," while one of their leaders, Robert Browne, is "un-attractive, ill-tempered, wife-beating." In reading his histories, one may simply take note of Rowse's strongly stated biases, and correct for them in matters of opinion. But when he brings to literary criticism...
...Your article on Britain's ex-Lord Home [Oct. 25] was so interesting and entertaining that it is hard to realize that it was also true. My teen-agers started reading it for laughs, became interested in its factual content, ended up having a "bull-session" with seven of their friends about it. The oldest one decided it could have been titled, "Look Homeward, Anglo...
There has been a great deal of talk in the local press and even in some reasonably good newspapers about today being some sort of Challenge Day for the Ivy League. "Just how good is the Ivy League Anyway?" headlines have been asking, implying that a factual, non-controversial answer will be prepared...
...glum and portentous aphorisms on the subject, such as, "Dreams are the onanism of the spirit." But the one thing everyone knows about dreams is that they are quite different from waking, and something is wrong if you can't tell which is which. This elementary error-either factual or esthetic-is persisted in over 274 relentless pages...
...read the article on the Anglican Communion [Aug.16] with great interest, and I thought it good. There is only one factual correction that I would make. It is said that the recent measure passed by Parliament freeing church courts from final appeal to the Privy Council was Ramsey-inspired. In fact, the initiation of this measure and of the Canon Law Measures goes much farther back. In 1948 and subsequent years. I initiated the machinery of inquiry and deliberation and drafting, whether by commissions or by the convocations out of which these measures came...