Word: factually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appreciate the Crimson's recent editorial endorsement of a strong Radcliffe and of our current restructuring plans ("Radcliffe Takes a Step Forward"). However, my colleagues and I must ask your help in correcting a major factual error...
...petition of the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) for a multicultural student center ("Officials Deny Request for Minority Center," News, Nov. 2). First, I believe that both The Crimson and Dean Epps misrepresented the goals of the movement spearheaded by the MSA. Additionally, there were a number of factual errors in this article which I would like to bring to your attention...
...would like to also point out some factual errors in R. Alan Leo's article. First, the MSA currently does not have office space of any kind. Like many ethnic and cultural organizations at Harvard, the MSA has no formally assigned university space...
Donald's biography is at its best when recounting details like this. His style is factual and largely objective. As he states, his intention is to "explain rather than to judge." Donald's style disappoints only at the most significant and emotional points in Lincoln's life. For example, when Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address, Donald does not reprint the speech, even though it is only 272 words long...
Donald is an excellent historian and writer, not to mention the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography. Fortunately, Lincoln's life is interesting enough that even when retold in Donald's careful, dry and factual way it holds the reader's attention for all 600 pages. Lincoln is an excellent, extremely informative biography that has deservedly been hailed as the best in a generation and among the best of all time...