Word: factualism
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...made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief-sweeten their pill to the public taste. Yet under the sugar-coating of a story of young love, there is still strong medicine: a calmly factual picture of how ordinary working people live in the midst of Rome's (and much of the world's) housing shortage...
Although your article about George Romney is interesting and factual, your observation that Mr. Romney was given a plaque by the Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association in a "facetious" manner, must be taken exception to. The 138 members of this dealers association have taken the "slings and arrows" from Mr. Romney's merchandising outpourings for too many months-and have too much respect for this man-to give him anything "facetious." This plaque was tendered to him in appreciation, and out of respect of his great merchandising ability...
...reaction to your story on Bolivia [March 2] was more violent but otherwise in line with the response to similar factual descriptions of the Bolivian situation. A year ago Senator Theodore Green and I were bitterly attacked in La Paz for a speech in the Senate and for an article, respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm...
Television, according to Paul Johnson in the New Statesman, is "the apotheosis of ignorance: its dull, electronic eye mirrors back, down to the smallest detail, the fuzzy thinking and factual vagueness of its uneducated audience. Yet, Johnson believes, the professorial crowd managed to justify its concession to television as a sort of moral compensation" for the national ignorance. In the absence of anyone else, the professor rallied to the salvation of mankind and assumed the role of the Expert. If he found in Jack Benny an odd bedfellow, the academic could clearly see his responsibility to compensate...
Moscow radio and Tass, for the first time, carried factual dispatches from New York reporting that a Navy boarding party had inspected the records of the trawler about 120 miles off Newfoundland...