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...gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully-made plans were rendered irrelevant, where bewildering and unprecedented problems arose and where, in a haze of fantastic misconceptions, governments struggled for possession of unknown continents. Not a severe critic of Spain's colonial policy, Sociologist Means notes that serious attempts to develop humane methods of governing Indians were consistently made. Simple inexperience was often responsible for practices that later generations defined as brutal. Spaniards could not understand West Indian natives who had no chiefs, did not realize that they were psychologically...
While other Administration officials fretted privately at General Johnson's honest sniping, spunky Secretary of the Interior Ickes barked at a press conference in Washington: "He a critic? Why, he's helping the Administration. Perhaps you hadn't noticed that. . . . Since the good General was bucked out as head of NRA he's been suffering from mental saddle sores...
...Said Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times of the same piece: "The music is labored and the thematic material very sparse. ... It sometimes repeats, but seldom progresses...
After When Johnny Comes Marching Home last week, Critic Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune said: "[Harris'] is a brilliant, vivid, able and engrossing essay in the variation form. . . ." Said seasoned old William J. Henderson of the New York Sun: "One should not take such a composition too solemnly...
...especial merit of Professor Matthiessen's book. Intimately acquainted with the man and his work, Professor Matthiessen makes no attempts to conceal the fact that he is attorney for the defence, and he rests his case boldly on the actual performance of Eliot as poet and as critic. He does not claim, like most advocates, to be in sole possession of the whole truth, so his tone is never arrogant or impatient; the only handicap with which his advocacy and enthusiasm have encumbered him is the tendency to deduce universal 'laws' of poetry from the practice of Eliot, but that...