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回复 :1953年的夏天,晚年丘吉尔遭受了一次危及生命的中风。党中觊觎首相之位的人蠢蠢欲动,他的家人也望其退位安享晚年。而丘吉尔本人,仍然希望自己以首相身份参加国际会议,为世界和平作出最后一次努力。
回复 :1817年,法国大作家司汤达来到意大利,在佛罗伦萨终日沉醉于文艺复兴时期的大师杰作。一天,他到圣十字教堂参观米开朗基罗、伽利略和马基雅维利的陵墓,刚走出教堂大门,突然感到头脑纷乱,心脏剧烈颤动,每走一步都像要摔倒。医生诊断这是由于频繁欣赏艺术珍品使心理过于激动所至,这种 因强烈的美感而引发的罕见病症从此被称为“司汤达综合症”。直到今天,佛罗伦萨的医生仍会不时碰到“司汤达综合症”患者,病情严重的甚至要住几天医院。他们多半是狂爱艺术且极具鉴赏力的游客,野心勃勃,要在几天之内扫遍这座文艺复兴中心城市的艺术宝藏,结果却在接踵而来的视觉冲击中不堪重负。但意大利人对“司汤达综合症”有百分之百的免疫力,对他们来说,文艺复兴的辉煌,像空气一样无所不在,从幼年到迟暮,他们的生活里一直流动着达芬奇、米开朗基罗、拉斐尔那个天才时代的气息电影中的女警官,和当年的司汤达一样,被乌菲齐美术馆美不胜收的藏品折磨得当场昏倒。佛罗伦萨警校肯定不设心理测试这一关,否则她无法毕业。而歹徒又怎么知道她有这个毛病?大概是阿金托透露给他的……
回复 :Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.