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Though Nature is the central character, Man is hero of Van Loon's Geography. He is shown against an economic and geographic background, his character and achievements modified by the contours of his country, the bias of a mountain race, the tendency of a trade route. Not pretending to be anything but a "poor ama-teur," Author Van Loon makes a blanket apology for statistical inaccuracies, explains that the authorities he has had to depend upon contradict themselves. Doubtless few professional geographers will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur...
...probably will not live long but should be read today by anyone who wishes to be well informed or intends to understand America in the doldrums. It is as entertaining as it is thorough, and the author's selection of material is excellent. He writes from a liberal bias but it gives an impression that he is free from prejudices. He does not hesitate to give conclusions as well as more than enough facts for the reader to form his own conclusions. The most serious error is the author's idea that it was a temporary aberration which has passed...
...possible, on the players, rules and tricks of the game. To keep this attitude from resulting, as it might have done, in tedious pedantry, was one of the major editorial problems. It called for writing of a most vivid and original kind. It also necessitated the complete elimination of bias and prejudice. This new historian must have perspective and complete objectivity. His attitude must be, as it has since been defined, that of the Man in the Moon at the end of the current century...
...controversial have been reports from Pineville, where Writer Waldo Frank & party tried to distribute food to hungry striking miners, that the Associated Press, last week, answered complaints of bias on the part of its local representative thus: "Mr. Evans is ... not a staff correspondent of The Associated Press and The Associated Press is not responsible for his personal conduct." No contemptible liar, TIME erred in failing to distinguish between the group of assailants, including Herndon Evans, who rode Waldo Frank out of Kentucky and brutally attacked him and Lawyer Allen Taub, and those members of the group who actually...
...impressed by the huge circular earrings affected by Balinese ladies, the costumes of dancing girls, their fans and lavish headgear. His line drawings, particularly one of two dancers called Legong, were graceful and more colorful than his paintings, which had the air of East Indian fashion plates. With pardonable bias, Muralist Diego Rivera, for whom Covarrubias once lugged water jugs in Mexico City, said: "Covarrubias has now reached the age at which a man's face occasionally becomes overcast and in which his work grows in profundity...