Word: factualism
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Through this damning factual indictment, Hungary's chief delegate, Peter Mod, sat impassively. Nor did he answer when the Uruguayan delegate asked him to explain his own "magic metamorphosis" from last October, when Mod himself led a Revolutionary Committee of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry that had demanded "liberation" and condemned Russia's "unwarranted interference...
Idyl's End. Author Cronin scarcely lives up to Herodotus or Hakluyt, for nowadays history is considered more "creative" if it is presented as fiction. Cronin has recast historic events in a form which the Persians call dastan, i.e., "near-factual history, almost myth." But the hero of this dastan will be remembered: Ghazan Khan, nomad chief of a tribe that Cronin calls the Falqani and a man hopelessly caught in the paradoxes of progress...
...slight figure, with a thin voice, Merk is well known for his precise, factual lectures, lightened by occasional whimsical jokes...
...historical tales, one is concerned with the Civil War, the other with the American Revolution; one is factual, the other imagined; one deals with physical and the other with moral courage. Both are agreeable examples of the Historical Footnote school of writing...
Said efforts, he thought, should be rewarded. Only he wasn't sure. "I'm not that sinister or impecunious," he said and quickly restored our faith in the Grand Old Party. But he went on to say that he hadn't been able to achieve a "rapport on a factual basis." We felt sorry about this, but no one else seemed to, and one motion was made to censure the gentlemen for embarassment. Of what we don't know; certainly not of riches...