“I FEEL like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’; picked up by a whirlwind and dropped down in a land where everything is much more brightly coloured,” says Thomas Campbell, who on January 1st became the new director and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. His description is both apt and unexpected.
“我感觉像《绿野仙踪》里的桃乐茜;被一阵旋风刮起,然后在一个地方掉了下来,那里一切都是色彩斑斓,”托马斯?坎贝尔的描述恰如其分,也令人出乎意外。元月一日他成为了纽约大都会艺术博物馆的新任管理人和行政总裁。
||1:A few months later Jones persuaded the same grand jury to indict Edward Lee Elmore, a 23-year-old black man, for the murder of Dorothy Edwards, a 75-year-old white woman.||2:She was found inside her bedroom closet, bruised and repeatedly stabbed.||3:Mr Elmore was sentenced to death less than 90 days later.||4:This grim case is the subject of “Anatomy of Injustice”, a gripping and enraging book from Raymond Bonner, a veteran investigative journalist at the New York Times.||5:Mr Elmore would spend 27 years on death row, despite strong circumstantial evidence suggesting that he did not commit the crime.||6:His capital sentence was ultimately overturned thanks to the tireless efforts of Diana Holt, his lawyer and the book’s hero, who spent more than a decade seeking justice on his behalf.
||1:几个月之后Jones说服这相同的大陪审团起诉 Edward Lee Elmore,一个23岁的黑人谋杀一位75岁的白人妇女Dorothy Edwards。||2:她是在自己的卧室衣橱被发现的,身上青肿并被刺了很多刀。||3:Elmore先生在90天内就被判处死刑。||4:这个残酷的例子就是《不公正的剖析》这本书的主题,这本吸引人的书是一位纽约时报资深调查新闻记者雷蒙德·邦纳(Raymond Bonner)写的。||5:尽管大量的间接推测都表明Elmore先生并没有犯罪,但他也将在死刑房耗尽27年。||6:他死刑的罪状最终在戴安娜·霍尔特(Diana Holt)的不懈努力下推翻了,戴安娜·霍尔特(Diana Holt)是他的律师也是这本书的主人翁,他花费了10多年的时间为Elmore声张正义。
||1: A veteran journalist, formerly with Newsweek, Mr Nagorski seems most interested in the stories of diplomats and fellow hacks. ||2: They come off a bit better than their sightseeing countrymen, even if their early views were wide of the mark. ||3: Dorothy Thompson, celebrity journalist and wife of the novelist Sinclair Lewis, published a 1932 book called “I Saw Hitler!”. ||4: She found him to be a “Little Man” with an “actor’s face…capable of being pushed out or in”, whereas President Hindenburg appeared “cut out of rock.” ||5: Hitler’s “tragedy” she wrote, “is that he has risen too high.” He seized power a year later.
||1:作为《新闻周刊》的前资深记者,纳戈尔斯基似乎对外交官和雇佣文人的故事最感兴趣。||2:即使他们早期的观点有些离谱,也比来观光的同胞稍好一点。||3:知名记者桃乐茜·汤普森是小说家辛克莱·刘易斯的妻子,她1932年出版了一本书,名为《我看到了希特勒!》。||4:她发现希特勒是个“小个子”,有张“演员的脸……能屈能伸”,而总统兴登堡却看似“切削出的岩石”。||5:她写道,希特勒的“悲剧在于他爬得太高”。一年后,希特勒夺取了政权。
Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power. By Susan Hertog.
代偿巨大的野望:Rebecca West和Dorothy Thompson,新时代女性追寻的爱与权力。作者:Susan Hertog。
Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson were remarkable—by any standards;
无论何时,Rebecca West和Dorothy Thompson都吸引着世俗的目光;
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1.(1907–98), US writer. She wrote about racism and class and was a spokesman for the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s. Her novels include The Living Is Easy (1948) and The Wedding (1995). The Richer, the Poorer (1995) is a collection of autobiographical pieces.
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