Word: factualism
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...every which way by the offhanded comments and parenthetical remarks of authority figures. Most college students are, in fact, mature and critical individuals who can easily distinguish between ill-conceived rants and nuggets of political wisdom. To be sure, professors should not attempt to deceive their students about the factual basis or validity of their opinions, but this is as far as their obligation to impartiality extends. College students are adults who are perfectly able to make up their own minds on a range of issues. Whether a student takes a class on economic incentives or systems of oppression...
...writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...Nicolais ’06-Samita A. Mannapperuma ’06 ticket never hesitated to point out that vice-presidential candidate Mannapperuma ’06 was the only female candidate for either position, and also the only Quad resident in the running. Outside of these factual observations, however, the rest of the campaign rhetoric barely rose above the level of vague pleasantries...
...after Fuller’s death in 1997—was no longer truly possible. The recoveries comprised by this restoration extend from subtle stylistic and thematic embellishments—or example a heretofore unseen opening title card reading “This is Fictional Life, Based on Factual Death”—to completely “new” sequences that are integral to the development of major characters...
...board’s unabashed propagandizing comes despite a 1995 law passed by the Texas senate restricting the board’s authority to vet textbooks—factual inaccuracy is the only basis on which they are allowed to judge. But apparently the Board of Education does not see legality as a barrier to its mission to eradicate—in the words of Board member Terri Leo—“asexual stealth phrases...