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demonic training of the Briton in learning to
nture, follow Welsh mountain roads. Could be.
i, Mr. -Looking back, Mr. Fisher was happy that
them for a few weeks he held the North American
s on record of 401 new birds identified in a year
ation, before Mr. Peterson, on home grounds, over-
m of took him. That's fine. But give Brooks
Atkinson, the West Forty-third Street Audu-
bon, a few months to roam the country and
he'd probably come back with a list of a
time, thousand, counting new species inhabiting the
to the theatres.
texas, Discerning the True Denizens
ough
arnia In the end, what impressed Mr. Fisher about
ska, this country was not only such wonders as
.hree Crater Lake, Yosemite, the coral islands and
vast the rain forests, the National Parks, Forests
itific and Monuments and the Appalachian Trail,
n, be the Indians who had a going civilization while
-her Britain was still under Roman rule, but also
way the North Americans themselves.
ver, "We Europeans who have not visited North
,eat Americans in their homes," he writes, "read
Mr. of them and see what the movies show us.
Many of us get half a light on half a life-
iabo- the dollar half: Rugged Individualism, Private
eter- Enterprise, Showmanship, Power Politics. We
actions do not see so well the rugged altruism, the
f the public spirit, the guardianship, the fair dealing
com- of the American at home. Why should they
tents. talk of what they take for granted? They
after talk to us of their doubts and difficulties, of
of their troubles and quarrels, old and new.
as see them (forgive us) more as brave
darj n fliers, successful spur+
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