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When Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria appeared, at the dawn of the debunking '20s, many critics deplored its un-Victorian tone and sardonic bias. Now, time has so mellowed Strachey's lèse-majesté that his biography has been accepted both as a classic study of Victorianism and a human portrait of the great Queen...
...opinion) too many of his followers began to write as if all U.S. history had been "determined" by economic forces alone, he ruffled them once more. Said Beard: "The economic interpretation is one key to history . . . not the key." He cautioned that all history-writing had an unavoidable bias, that each historian would approve or disapprove, stress or ignore, according to his time and temperament...
...said that spoke from a natural bias. Nobody could accuse Al (Li'l Abner) Capp of disloyalty to his profession. Was there a shred of truth in his assertion? To prove that there might be, 100 topflight cartoonists were exhibiting their best work in Manhattan last week...
Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...
Says Deutsch: "I'm not a crusader. I'm just against evil things that don't have to be." Among them: racial bias, maltreatment of juvenile delinquents and the insane. In 1943 a story he never printed - but showed to the War Department for security clearance - ended the barbarous expedient of bringing some psychoneurotic veterans home from overseas in wire cages...