Word: factualism
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...linkages that were virtually nonexistent before her arrival. The synergy and shared expertise that have resulted have been refreshing and invigorating, and I have heard many voices of appreciation for her open and cooperative style. The autocratic image you describe of Dean Kidd is a fiction. Many of your factual implications are likewise incorrect; for example, you well know that the move of HAND into Phillips Brooks House, so that the program could have a permanent location in better communication with the College public service staff, was envisioned long before Dean Kidd's appointment. Your argument against this move--that...
Because the film toes the line between a straight factual account and a dramatization based loosely on history, it struggles to reconcile the two extremes. As a result, like the book that engendered it, the film crosses many boundaries in terms of genre. Ultimately, it seems to lie on the documentary side of docudrama, because so much of it is based on truth...
...creating some binary opposition, have actually been shown, from studies conducted in Sweden and this country, to accelerate the acquisition of what is considered the standard language. Thus, Ms. Barenbaum's assertion that Ebonics is going to further stratify lower-income blacks is simple hypothesizing with no substantial factual corroboration...
...necessary to first correct a vital factual flaw in Mr. Karger's article. Mr. Karger writes that the Undergraduate Council has no business calling upon Harvard's non-discrimination policies as justification for why Memorial Church should allow same-sex blessing ceremonies because "then the church should not only allow same-sex blessing ceremonies but also stop discriminating against non-Christian religions and Jewish and Muslim services as well." In fact, Muslim and Jewish ceremonies have been performed in the church on numerous occasions for both holidays and weddings...
There were some factual errors in your article "The Chairman of Virtue Inc.," about Bill Bennett and the success of his campaign for better moral values in America [NATION, Sept. 16]. Your story said Bennett was at the home of our parents Charles and Helen Frankel in 1979 on the day prior to their murders. He was not. You described the residence as a "mansion"; it was a seven-room ranch house. And finally, the burglars who committed the murders were not "found to have been high on amphetamines." Drug use was never implicated as a factor in the crime...