Michael Harrington （ 1928 - 1989 ） - 外国语言文化....pptVIP

Michael Harrington （ 1928 - 1989 ） He is a professor of political science at Queen’s College. His books of social criticism include:The Next America: The Decline and Rise of the United States. The Vast Majority :A Journey the World ‘s Poor. Socialist He also is a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. He was the most well-known socialist in the United States during his lifetime. background The text is taken from The Other America. He wrote it in 1963 when he served as the first editor of New America. Harrington became the pre-eminent spokesman for democratic socialism in America . For the United States, 1945 to 1964 was an era of economic growth and prosperity which saw the victorious powers of World War II confronting each other in the Cold War and the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement that ended Jim Crow segregation in the South. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 ?–1778) A philosopher and political theorist, is considered the most important forerunner of romanticism. He advocates primitivism attributing superior virtue to primitive civilization, which is idealized. Primitivism Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows of visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples. It doesn’t really describe the prehistoric peoples. In fact , it just describes disillusion of the painter. 原始主义，就是以表现人的原始本性为创作目的。 它所描述的并不是人类的原始，事实上不过是画家的幻梦 The valleys of Pennsylvania(P46 L13) 宾夕法尼亚山谷 Pennsylvania is a state of America. The valleys of Pennsylvania are located in the east side of the Great Appalachians Valley. (P46 L19) 阿巴拉契亚山脉 The history of Pennsylvania The various gaps connecting the Great Appalachians Valley to lands to the east and west have played important roles in American history. On the east side, the wide gap in southeast Pennsylvania became the main route for colonization of the Great Appalachians Valley. By the 1730s the Pennsylvanian was open to settlement after treaty cessions and purchases from the Indians. The region drew a steady