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例子完整版Diana Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Whales, is remembered and respected by people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills. External and Internal BeautyDiana was beautiful, in a fresh-faced, English, outdoors-girl kind of way. She used her big blue eyes to their fullest advantage, melting the hearts of men and women through an expression of complete vulnerability. Dianas eyes, like those of Marilyn Monroe, contained an appeal directed not to any individual but to the world at large.SacrificeDiana was a sacrificial symbol in several ways. First she became the patron saint of victims, the sick, and the discriminated against, the homeless. Then, partly through her real suffering at the hands of a rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked the public worship of her. And finally she became the ultimate victim of her own fame: pursued by paparazzi, she became a twisted and battered body in a limousine. It was a fittingly tawdry end to what had become an increasingly tawdry melodrama. But it is in the nature of religion that forms change to fit the times. Diana celebrity, tabloid princess, mater dolorosa of the pop and fashion scene was, if nothing else, the perfect idol for our times.Helen KellerBlind and deafHelen Keller was less than two years old when she came down with a fever. It struck dramatically and left her unconscious. The fever went just as suddenly. But she was blinded and, very soon after, deaf.LiteratureI can say the word see. I can speak the language of the sighted. Thats part of the first great achievement of Helen Keller. She proved how language could liberate the blind and the deaf. She wrote, Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. But how she struggled to master language. With language, Keller, who could not hear and could not see, proved she could communicate in the world of sight and sound and was able to speak to it and live in it.TeacherAs miraculous as learning language may seem, that achievement of Kellers belongs to the 19th century. It was also a co-production with her patient and persevering teacher, Anne Sullivan. Helen Kellers greater achievement came after Sullivan, her companion and protector, died in 1936. Keller would live 32 more years and in that time would prove that the disabled can be independent.EqualityThose people whose only experience of her is The Miracle Worker will be surprised to discover her many dimensions. My work for the blind, she wrote, has never occupied a center in my personality. My sympathies are with all who struggle for justice. She was a tireless activist for racial and sexual equality.Bruce LeeMartial ArtsHe is the patron saint of the cult of the body: the almost mystical belief that we have the power to overcome adversity if only we submit to the right combinations of exercise, diet, meditation and weight training; that by force of will, we can sculpt ourselves into demigods. The century began with a crazy burst of that philosophy.Adolf HitlerHistoryThe Satan and exterminating angel feared and hated by all others, Hitler led his people to a shameful defeat without precedent. That his political and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line in the history of this turbulent and tormented century is undeniable: there is a before and an after. By the breadth of his crimes, which have attained a quasi-ontological dimension, he surpasses all his predecessors: as a result of Hitler, man is defined by what makes him inhuman. With Hitler at the head of a gigantic laboratory, life itself seems to have changed.LeadershipWas there no resistance to his disastrous projects? There was. But it was too feeble, too weak and too late to succeed. German society had rallied behind him: the judicial, the educational, the industrial and the economic establishments gave him their support. Few politicians of this century have aroused, in their lifetime, such love and so much hate; few have inspired so much historical and psychological research after their death. Even today, works on his enigmatic personality and his cursed career are best sellers everywhere. Some are good, others are less good, but all seem to respond to an authentic curiosity on the part of a public haunted by memory and the desire to understand.The apple of ParisWe think we know everything about the nefarious forces that shaped his destiny: his unhappy childhood, his frustrated adolescence; his artistic disappointments; his wound received on the front during World War I; his taste for spectacle, his constant disdain for social and military aristocracies; his relationship with Eva Braun, who adored him; the cult of the very death he feared; his lack of scruples with regard to his former comrades of the SA, whom he had assassinated in 1934; his endless hatred of Jews, whose survival enraged him each and every phase of his official and private life has found its chroniclers, its biographers.Marilyn MonroeMovieMovies have lent the most perishable qualities, such as youth, beauty and comedy, a millennial shelf life. Until the cameras rolled, stars of the past could only be remembered, not experienced. Had she been born earlier, Marilyn might have existed as only a legendary rumor, a Helen of Troy or Tinker Bell. But thanks to Blockbuster, every generation now has immediate access to the evanescent perfection of Marilyn bumping and cooing her way through that chorines anthem, Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Only movie stars have the chance to live possibly forever, and maybe thats why theyre all so crazy.The BeatlesGiftLooking back, though, it seems likely that the Beatles with their buoyant spirits, their bottomless charm, their unaccustomed and irrepressible wit could probably have boosted the mirth quotient at a clown convention. Their overflowing gifts for songcraft, harmony and instrumental excitement, their spiffy suits and nifty haircuts, their bright quips and ready smiles, made them appear almost otherworldly, as if they had just beamed down from some distant and far happier planet.HardshipsActually, of course, they hailed from Liverpool, a semi-grim seaport on the northwestern coast of England. John Lennon, born there in 1940, never knew the seagoing father who had deserted his mother; mainly a doting aunt raised the boy. He grew up arty and angry and musical, it turned out, after his mother bought him the traditional cheap kid guitar (the label inside said guaranteed not to split), and he quickly worked out the chords to the Buddy Holly hit Thatll Be the Day. Paul McCartney, born in 1942 and destined to become Lennons songwriting soul mate, seemed a sunnier type: well mannered, level-headed, all that. But he had weathered trauma of his own, losing his mother to breast cancer in his early teens.Muhammad AliEvery profession is great that is greatly pursuedOliver Wendell Holmes once observed that every profession is great that is greatly pursued. Boxing in the early 60s, largely controlled by the Mob, was in a moribund state until Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay, in those days appeared on the scene. Just when the sweet science appears to lie like a painted ship upon a painted ocean, wrote A.J. Liebling, a new Hes along like a Moran tug to pull it out of the ocean.SpecialNor did they approve of his personal behavior: the self-promotions (I am the greatest!), his affiliation with the Muslims and giving up his slave name for Muhammad Ali (I dont have to be what you want me to be; Im free to be what I want), the poetry (his ability to compose rhymes on the run could very well qualify him as the first rapper) or the quips (If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, dont ask how. Hitch him up!). At the press conferences, the reporters were sullen. Ali would turn on them. Why aint you taking notice? or Why aint you laughing? Bear no ill willThen, of course, three years after Ali defended the championship, there came the public vilification for his refusal to join the Army during the Vietnam War I aint got no quarrel with them Viet Cong one of the more telling remarks of the era. The government prosecuted him for draft dodging, and the boxing commissions took away his license. He was idle for 3 1/2 years at the peak of his career. In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that the government had acted improperly. But Ali bore the commissions no ill will. There were no lawsuits to get his title back through the courts. No need, he said, to punish them for doing what they thought was right. Quite properly, in his mind, he won back the title in the ring, knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round of their fight in Zaire the Rumble in the Jungle. SportAli was asked on a television show what he would have done with his life, given a choice. After an awkward pause a rare thing, indeed he admitted he couldnt think of anything other than boxing. That is all he had ever wanted or wished for. He couldnt imagine anything else. He defended boxing as a sport: You dont have to be hit in boxing. People dont understand that.SpiritMuhammad Alis was not exactly a leave-taking, but it may have seemed so to the estimated 3 billion or so television viewers who saw him open the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Outfitted in a white gym suit that eerily made him seem to glisten against a dark night sky, he approached the unlit saucer with his flaming torch, his free arm trembling visibly from the effects of Parkinsons.MarvelIt was a kind of epiphany that those who watched realized how much they missed him and how much he had contributed to the world of sport. Students of boxing will pore over the trio of Ali-Frazier fights, which rank among the greatest in fistic history, as one might read three acts of a great drama. They would remember the shenanigans, the Ali Shuffle the Rope-a-Dope, the fact that Ali had brought beauty and grace to the most uncompromising of sports. And they would marvel that through the wonderful excesses of skill and character, he had become the most famous athlete, indeed, the best-known personage in the world.The American G.I.HeroG.I. is a World War II term that two generations later continues to conjure up the warmest and proudest memories of a noble war that pitted pure good against pure evil and good triumphed. The victors in that war were the American G.I.s, the Willies and Joes, the farmer from Iowa and the steelworker from Pittsburgh who stepped off a landing craft into the hell of Omaha Beach. The G.I. was the wisecracking kid Marine from Brooklyn who clawed his way up a deadly hill on a Pacific island. He was a black fighter pilot escorting white bomber pilots over Italy and Germany, proving that skin color had nothing to do with skill or courage. He was a native Japanese-American infantryman released from his own countrys concentration camp to join the fight. She was a nurse relieving the agony of a dying teenager. He was a petty officer standing on the edge of a heaving aircraft carrier with two signal paddles in his hands, helping guide a dive-bomber pilot back onto the deck. AmericaThey were America. They reflected our diverse origins. They were the embodiment of the American spirit of courage and dedication. They were truly a peoples army, going forth on a crusade to save democracy and freedom, to defeat tyrants, to save oppressed peoples and to make their families proud of them. They were the Private Ryans, and they stood firm in the thin red line.AdventureFor most of those G.I.s, World War II was the adventure of their lifetime. Nothing they would ever do in the future would match their experiences as the warriors of democracy, saving the world from its own insanity. You can still see them in every Fourth of July color guard, their gait faltering but ever proud.Americas commitmentTheir forebears went by other names: doughboys, Yanks, buffalo soldiers, Johnny Reb, Rough Riders. But G.I. will be forever lodged in the consciousness of our nation to apply to them all. The G.I. carried the value system of the American people. The G.I.s were the surest guarantee of Americas commitment. For more than 200 years, they answered the call to fight the nations battles. They never went forth as mercenaries on the road to conquest. They went forth as reluctant warriors, as citizen soldiers.DemocracyIn this century hundreds of thousands of G.I.s died to bring to the beginning of the 21st century the victory of democracy as the ascendant political system on the face of the earth. The G.I.s were willing to travel far away and give their lives, if necessary, to secure the rights and freedoms of others. Only a nation such as ours, based on a firm moral foundation, could make such a request of its citizens. And the G.I.s wanted nothing more than to get the job done and then return home safely. All they asked for in repayment from those they freed was the opportunity to help them become part of the world of democracy-and just enough land to bury their fallen comrades, beneath simple white crosses and Stars of David.Albert EinsteinGeniusEinsteins galvanizing effect on the popular imagination continued throughout his life, and after it. Fearful his grave would become a magnet for curiosity seekers, Einsteins executors secretly scattered his ashes. But they were defeated at least in part by a pathologist who carried off his brain in hopes of learning the secrets of his genius. Only recently Canadian researchers, probing those pickled remains, found that he had an unusually large inferior parietal lobe a center of mathematical thought and spatial imagery and shorter connections between the frontal and temporal lobes. More definitive insights, though, are emerging from old Einstein letters and papers. These are finally coming to light after years of resistance by executors eager to shield the great relativists image.ContrastUnlike the avuncular caricature of his later years who left his hair unshorn, helped little girls with their math homework and was a soft touch for almost any worthy cause, Einstein is emerging from these documents as a man whose unsettled private life contrasts sharply with his serene contemplation of the universe. He could be alternately warmhearted and cold; a doting father, yet aloof; an understanding, if difficult, mate, but also an egregious flirt. Deeply and passionately