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...recent "Brass Tacks" editorial ("A Question of Tolerance," May 3, 1982). Paul Engelmayer strays from his usually cogent and well-reasoned style. The piece contains a number of factual errors concerning GSA's petition drive in response to the suggestion of E.L. Pattullo (Director, Harvard University Center for the Behavioral Sciences) that homosexuality be eradicated through the application of "negative social pressures" and, in addition, entirely ignores the chilling effect of such views on research in the three departments Pattullo overseas...
...State Department for materials on the events in Guatemala in 1954. Eight months later, he received 1200 pages of documents. They described, on a day-to-day, basis, what the U.S. ambassador had done during the 10 days of the coup. As Schlesinger remembers it. "Reading this factual account of the actions the U.S. took to overthrow a foreign government. I realized I had a potential book on my-hands...
...review after another has nibbled away at the factual underpinning of this book--the military historians have challenged Podhoretz's casualty figures, the Kissinger specialists have picked apart his analyses of Cambodia. This reviewer know's relatively little about those matters, but a good deal about the history of the domestic antiwar movement. If Podhoretz's treatment of that great and powerful outburst is typical of the way he deals with the facts, then much of this book is a twisted, lying account. Though he allows at one point that the "radicals who openly supported the Communists were...
...being rejected. No matter how objective she may have attempted to be in her assessment of the show, she could not help but to enter the audience with some sort of negative bias. Further, there is no evidence of any attempt at objectivity in Miss Joseph's review. The factual inaccuracies, logical inconsistencies, and hypocritical conclusions (one wonders why she auditioned for the play if she felt it was better "to let the play gather dust") all indicate a vindictive article written out of pique...
...would like to correct some of the more glaring factual inaccuracies and ommissions in Adam Cohen's reporting of Women's History Week at Harvard and Radcliffe (March...