Word: factualism
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...despite Webb's superficiality, his is the best essay in the book. The other essays try to examine various aspects of the cultural history of the West, but they mainly succeed only in relating factual anecdotes...
...Bennion on "The Mormoms" is possibly the best very short history of the early church. James D. Horan in his "The Gunmen" has the good sense to know that the "Wild Bunch" was the fiercest Western outlaw gang and to spend his time relating their story but he makes factual mistakes in the story of this magnificent group, who died under attack by a whole company of Infantry...
...jagged, episodic structure of Compulsion constantly stresses the factual, historical, documentary nature of the narrative. It no less constantly' proclaims the strength of the subject matter-its ability to vibrate and electrify as theater-and the weakness, its inability to widen and deepen as drama. The cause is less the usual documentary one, that truth tends to be formless, than that in Compulsion truth lacks a spacious enough frame of reference...
Thanks for the factual reporting of the situation in Little Rock...
...whole, factual story on Little Rock consist only of interviewing Orval Faubus, taking his worn-thin word at its face value, and stopping there? TIME had such an interview. But TIME correspondents also interviewed Arkansas integrationists and Arkansas segregationists. They also interviewed Orval Faubus' father, his cousins and his friends in the Ozark hills, along with his political cronies and his political enemies. They also interviewed Little Rock city and school authorities. Justice Department officials in Washington. U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. pool-hall characters standing around Little Rock's Central High School, and the Negro children kept...