Word: factualism
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...Yorker last week appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...
...also sold his own productions, which were bestsellers. Parson Weems wrote them at odd moments along the road-biographies of Washington, of Franklin, of Penn and-his best book-of General Francis Marion, the "little, smoke-dried, French-phizzed" Swamp Fox. They abounded in doubtful anecdotes, unblushing fabrications and factual errors, but they were also buoyant, impulsive, racy and full of the spirit of their subjects. After Washington's death Parson Weems wrote to his publisher: "Washington, you know, is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him. I am nearly primed and cocked...
Dewey wanted no nonsense, no barnstorming, no parades, flags or placards. His first two speeches, as he began his 6,700-mile jaunt to the West Coast and back, were short, crisp, and to the point-good examples of well ordered, factual courtroom talk. His tactical approach was to present one issue in each speech and ram that issue home so hard that the New Deal would be driven into long explanation...
Eighteen Canadian soldiers and a Canadian officer had been captured by the Germans, then "wilfully" murdered. The shocking announcement was based on a factual investigation by an unhurried and "completely dispassionate" joint U.S.British-Canadian Court of Inquiry. Details were meager and evidence undisclosed. But it was known that the murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro...
...Brothers (TIME, June 11, 1934), Mann said: "Very deep is the well of the past." Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced...