Word: factualism
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...Factual Spirit. There had been disappointments, Vandenberg conceded, and there was reason for legitimate and necessary criticism; the "impact of Communist aggression in the Far East" could not be ignored. "These are essential subjects for judicial congressional survey in that same factual spirit which must continue to strive to put our country first in our consideration...
...foreign policy, cooperation and the factual spirit had for some time been conspicuously lacking. The Democrats, if they wanted bipartisanship, would have to do more to include the Republicans, as Vandenberg once put it, in the "takeoffs as well as the crash landings" of foreign policy. And Republicans on their side had a duty to criticize, but they also had the duty to be responsible about...
...Wall, by John Hersey. The tragic, agonized story of Jews resisting extermination in Warsaw's ghetto during the Nazi occupation; a sometimes moving, often tedious novel in diary form which never quite succeeds in recapturing the factual tang and immediacy of Hiroshima (TIME, March...
...Wall, by John Hersey. The tragic, agonized story of Jews resisting extermination in Warsaw's ghetto during the Nazi occupation; a sometimes moving, often tedious novel in diary form which never quite succeeds in recapturing the factual tang and immediacy of Hiroshima (TIME, March...
Adonis & Hercules. Although Pigs waddles rapidly through world porcine history in a hurry to concentrate on U.S. hogs, it nevertheless roots up enough factual truffles along the way to qualify for its ambitious title. The pig, "the most primitive form of domestic mammal that exists today," is 39 million years older than million-year-old man. Boars charge about wildly through ancient mythology; one of them killed handsome Adonis, another was captured alive after a mighty struggle with hefty Hercules. About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese were already eating domestic swine, along with dogs and fowl. When France...