Word: factualism
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Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
Forty-seven delegates from 18 colleges brought new ideas and contributions to the discussions. Polit added innovations to conference technique this weekend: the pamphlet, We're in the Army Now, which has already earned praise for its dramatic yet factual approach; the living newspaper play, in which students, employees and residents of Poughkeepsic cooperated to present a picture of army life; the informal and varied panel discussions. We express our genuine delight at the large turnout which was Vassar's answer to each session's challenge...
...validity of Professor Burns' factual details concerning his Cambridge rivals is open to more than a small bit of doubt. The History Department, singly and collectively, denies any connection with Cape Cod and an unofficial poll reveals a Squam Lake-ish tendency rather than a Barnstable County...
...secret in his schools. Every young Nazi is taught to hate the U.S., knows that some day he will have to fight it. This week an educator who had heard Hitler's plans from the mouths of Nazi babes told what he had heard in the most vivid factual firsthand account of Nazi education yet published outside Germany, Education for Death (Oxford; $2). Its author, whose integrity is vouched for by such authorities as William L. Shirer and Douglas Miller, is Michigan-born Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, 42, for eleven years headmaster of the American Colony School (for U.S. diplomats...
...worst and best that can be said of Inside Latin America is that it is typical Gunther-broadsides of factual beef boiled down to the shreds assimilable by the man in the street. The continental scale is impressive; the book is an amazing condensation job, and so plausible that tens of thousands of readers will be sure they have been to Latin America...