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...Washington Irving in 1828: "a man of great and inventive genius" whose "ambition was lofty and noble." No wonder that Pope Pius IX wanted to make the discoverer of America a saint, or that more places in the English- speaking world are named for the Admiral of the Ocean Sea than for any other historical personage except Queen Victoria...
...pendulum has swung. In some quarters nowadays, the name of the man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is a downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of Paradise (Knopf; $24.95), author and environmentalist Kirkpatrick Sale portrays Cristobal Colon (to name Columbus correctly) as a grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor and an incompetent governor of Spain's New World colonies, whose legacy to the Indians he "discovered" was rapine, servitude and death...
...George Bachrach, Democratic activist: "Weld is a cork floating in John Silber's ocean. He had no control over this race. It was all John Silber."--Nov. 8 in the Boston Globe...
...piece of evidence." Following the spill, some 36,000 dead birds were recovered from the waters. But researchers estimate that the fatalities may have been far more numerous, between 100,000 and 300,000. The project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including deer, otter, mink and seals, to analyze long-term contamination effects...
...addition to suffering the taunts and accusative stares of parents, I find myself and my instrument lost and foundering in a vast ocean of ridicule and misunderstanding promulgated by your misinformed captionist...