Word: factualism
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...slight, spry and witty Scotsman, Campbell enjoys his assignment, even when his insistence on factual stories makes him unpopular with government supporters. "They criticize you after things appear." he says,"but they don't interfere with reporting. They attack, you -in the press, even in Parliament. But you can call the State Information Office the next day and they'll treat you with scrupulous courtesy...
...Pilgrims' transatlantic high jinks, may not be absolutely factual history, but Producer Schary hopes the film will be "a contribution to the American idea . . ." In Massachusetts, Henry Hornblower, president of Plimoth Plantation, Inc., a research group consulted by Scripter Deutsch, does not yet know the worst. "I suppose," says he, "that the movie will show Priscilla spinning. There is no evidence that a spinning wheel was brought over on the Mayflower...
...curricular activities. In reality, however, the 80-minute classes are highly competitive. The unwritten law in the classroom is that the professor must ask questions of a challenging nature if he expects any response. There is the oft' told tale of the newly arrived professor who asked his students factual questions. After a few meetings, the number of students dwindled until the professor was finally alone. Needless to say, he revised his teaching techniques...
...then one of the talkers appealed to the moderator who sat at the end of the table. He would give factual information, or suggest a line for the discussion to follow; never did he dominate it. If the talk seemed haphazard, it was planned that way. The conferees were the husbands of women who had been clinic patients because of severe mental illnesses (usually schizophrenia); the moderator was able young (30) Psychiatrist Gene Gordon, who wanted the men to talk out their problems for their own good as well as their wives...
Carbine Williams (MGM) fictionalizes the real-life story of David Marshall Williams (James Stewart), who perfected a revolutionary carbine while serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter. More factual than inspired, Carbine Williams often draws a blank dramatically...