Word: factualism
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...make the correspondents believe Mr. Morgenthau's disavowal of censorship. Always quick to resent such tactics the correspondents promptly expressed their feelings in a letter to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs: "We . . . formally protest against the rigid restrictions imposed by Mr. Morgenthau. . . . The Secretary's order includes factual or statistical information ordinarily available to the Press through officials. . . . It is our belief that the goodwill between the Treasury Department and the Press, built up in the last 15 years, has been seriously impaired. . . ." Well aware was President Roosevelt of the political necessity of keeping on good terms with...
...assigned perhaps two advisers or tutors, from one or more fields. The board of doctoral examiners would be composed differently for each candidate, with representatives from various departments, so that the whole range of his study might be covered and no part of it overtaxed. Though always testing his factual knowledge, it ought also to call for a showing of developed standards, and for some ability to relate the pale facts of study to the realities of life. In short, the ideal Graduate School would merely provide a fertile ground for the development of a man's work, and would...
...philosophy of life is expressed in loamy phrases and one finds no deep probing into causes and effects of the fantastic people and events he sets down for us in his reportorial style. He presents his factual data and is quite content with that alone. The journalistic tendency is marked because it is probable the author has made extensive use of newspaper files to refresh his memory. Facetiously, one might say, "this cop remembers" with the excellent aid of police records and the friends he has made during the length of his career...
...Parton's was the unmodified hero of local tradition. Taking cue from his Pulitzer prize "Raven" of 1929, Mr. James meticulously introduces the reader to the individuals with whom Jackson came into contact, and allows "Old Hickory" to evolve his own character through the medium of direct quotation and factual narration...
Fine Arts 1c, like other Fine Arts courses, is wholly factual. It consists entirely in memorizing slides and lecture notes. As the catalogue announces, it treats plastic art from the beginnings in Mesopotamia to the end of Ancient Times at the beginning of the Dark Ages. With Fine Arts 1d in the second half, it is the Harvard Course of concentrated culture for Casual Sophomores...