Word: factualism
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...quite willing to have you read what comes hereafter with the understanding that you are bound not to communicate to any other person any portions on which you do not now have or later receive factual knowledge from some other source than myself. . . . You have my word that neither the Secretary of War nor the President has any intimation whatsoever that such a letter has been addressed...
Last spring the Radcliffe Student Government reported that, in the opinion of the 579 'Cliffedwellers it polled, tutorial provides contact with great minds, improves the ability to reason, analyze, and synthesize, integrates factual knowledge, permits specialization within a field on various topics, and is itself a source of general education...
...sixth month in office, everybody could see that Harry Truman's way with the press was different from Franklin Roosevelt's. Was it better? Most Washington reporters by now were used to the Truman style of brief, factual announcements. Most of them liked it, even if the news gushed forth without much background information, and never anything like the parables Franklin Roosevelt delighted to tell. A few newsmen, mostly the kind who do "think pieces" and need something to prime the pump, yearned for the artful skirmishes, the nods and becks and significant smiles, of the 45-minute...
...read history either with a sneer or conversely only after the black pages have been deleted, is the equivalent of drinking water from a poisoned well. To be sure, cold, unemotional, purely factual analysis of human history is difficult and a similar examination of contemporary events is impossible to achieve...
...Schools are open, but there are no books yet. Some moving-picture houses are running and there will be more when American, British and Russian films are available. It is possible to go to the theater, to art exhibitions and concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Excellent music and factual news bulletins are broadcast by Radio Berlin until one in the morning. There are four newspapers published in the Russian zone, two by the Russians, two by German political parties (Communists and Social Democrats). Next month will appear the first paper published under the American policy of directives...