Word: factualism
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...student at Oxford, who has been carefully selected, is guided and advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
London newspapers carried a brief factual report of Bolam's conviction, with no hints of vampires. None protested the verdict. The Times, which had printed only official announcements in the Haigh case, even cheered Lord Goddard; it thought its tabloid contemporary guilty of "a plain abuse of the right to report news freely...
Accent on Quizzes. Wrote Beloff: "The habits of spoon-feeding that the school child acquires are not easily abandoned at the college level. Instruction by lecture and random discussion with the reading of prescribed passages from prescribed textbooks, the whole tested by examinations largely factual in character ... are hardly the way to encourage either independence of mind or maturity of judgment...
...easy. Eisenhower, unlike many a U.S. author, had not written his story with an eye on the movies. Therefore, without betraying its honest, factual presentation, his book had to be refitted into 26 connected episodes that would make dramatic use of the most valuable war film available. In the process Feldkamp found that he had a full-time research job on his hands. Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield-and elsewhere-at the same time. His reading...
...Murder at Harvard" 'will deal with the department's activities in assisting the state police in murder cases involving pathological research, Dr. Moritz's speciality. In its strictly factual approach, Taylor said, it will resemble "Boomerang," MGM's successful 1946 courtroom drama...