高级英语Henry-Fairlie的介绍.ppt

The spectator The new republic The Seven Deadly Sins Today New Republic Books, 1978 * Henry Jones Fairlie? Dad Mum Wife Kids Grandpa Family structure He was a British political journalist and social critic Henry Jones Fairlie Sometimes mistakenly believed to have coined the term the Establishment He spent 36 years as a prominent freelance writer “The Establishment”（权威人士的统称,当权派） An analysis of how all the right people came to run Britain largely through social connections. prominent freelance writer The Washington Post Front page for Sunday, October 25, 2009. Type: Daily newspaper Format: Broadsheet(大幅纸张 ) Owner: Washington Post Company Founded: 1877 Headquarters: 1150 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.,United States Circulation: 673,180 Daily 890,163 Sunday (Apr. 2008) - He was also the author of five books most notably? The Kennedy Promise In 2009, Yale University Press published Bite the Hand That Feeds You The Life of Politics,1969 The Spoiled Child of the Western World, 1976. The Parties, 1978 As Fairlie became better known, his personal life grew chaotic. He drank heavily and conducted a series of extramarital affairs. Never responsible with money, he amassed thousands of pounds of debts. And in 1965, he insulted lady Antonia Fraser on television, leading to a libel suit against him . Latter, he moved to America. Henry Fairlie’s Quotations The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. 基础的谦卑是真理。谦卑的人看见真正的自己。 The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from History to pet itself. 希望建立一个无风险的社会，是一个标志的颓废。 这就意味着这个国家已经放弃了，它不再相信自己的命运，它已不再渴望伟大，娇宠着自己，退出历史的舞台。