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Transatlantic Drivel. The reaction could scarcely have been worse. London's usually sober Economist blew its top. It growled: "American opinion should be warned that over here, in Great Britain, one has the feeling of being driven into a corner by a complex of American actions and insistencies which, in combination, are quite intolerable." Then it snapped: "Not many people in this country believe the Communist thesis that it is the deliberate and conscious aim of American policy to ruin Britain and everything that Britain stands for in the world. But the evidence can certainly be read that...
Thursfield thought a smart history teacher could use the legends to develop a "reasoned patriotism" in his pupils, without misleading them into thinking that the tales were sober history. Taught the right way, legends could make history livelier, at the same time show the youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...
...Dance Group recital, Pearl danced in Manhattan nightclubs, where she was a sensation, and as Sal and Dahomey Queen in Showboat. But after eleven months, she quit the show for more study. Since then, she has made concert appearances throughout the U.S. Wrote the New York Times's sober dance critic John Martin: ". . . It would be unfair to classify her merely as an outstanding Negro dancer, for by any standard she is ... outstanding . . . her dances are all fine and authentic in spirit, well composed and danced with great technical skill as well as dramatic power...
...request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac . . . to his death." Utrillo, on his feet and sober as an avenging angel, sued and won a public apology...
...Much of the propaganda in the contemporary press is simply counter-propaganda, the work of well-meaning men who distort facts because they no longer know how to get a hearing for sober truth...