Word: factualism
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...emotions, and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible. Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete rather than abstract,' descriptive rather than analytical. . . . It deals with certain important men and women, not to provide much in the way of factual biography, but to express their feelings and ideas, their values and tastes...
...drop of a single deadly phrase. Yet this seeming impotence should, by allowing more freedom than usual for expressing opinions and throwing weight around, make college reviewing more "provocative" (as they say in the book reviews), even if it does occasionally swing a little wide of the mark in factual matters...
...TIME emphatically agrees with Novelist Pearl Buck that raising a race issue is as unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME'S phrase but the factual report of typical angry U.S. reactions, thoroughly documented by reports from correspondents all over the U.S. It probably came to the tongues of many men in its strongest meaning-one of moral censure rather than race prejudice-for "yellow" has long been the word for cowardice and treachery. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side...
...Defense Economics," by Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, and "British Colonies and the War," by Marcus James '43 are both brief, dull, but thoroughly factual, and provide a worthwhile variation from the Guardian's tendency to emphasize theoretical material, a fault which has occurred more consistently in the past than in the current issue...
...TIME may sometimes offend-and for this TIME is deeply sorry. Only recently a brief article in TIME became an international issue when death gave it an unintended significance. TIME especially regrets any offense to the sensibilities of its friends in Latin America-resulting from this article. But honest, factual reporting on events in every part of the world is essential if the people of the Americas are to help guide the destinies of their nations...