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第一篇???????????????????????How?to?Live?Beautifully ?????????????????????????????????????By?Margaret.Mason ???? ????In?my?newspaper?column?some?months?ago,?I?reprinted?a?short?essay?on?youth?by?Samuel?Ullman,?an?author?unknown?to?me.?Then?I?got?a?call?from?Ullmans?great-grandson,?Richard?Ullman?Rosenfield,?a?psychologist.?He?told?me?that?he?had?been?intrigued?with?the?spiritual?journey?of?the?essay,?especially?in?Japan. ????Gen.?Douglas?MacArthur,?I?learned,?often?quoted?Ullmans?Youth?essay?and?kept?a?framed?copy?over?his?desk?throughout?the?Pacific?campaign.?Its?believed?that?the?Japanese?picked?up?the?work?from?his?Tokyo?headquarters. ????Unlikely?as?it?may?sound,?this?essay,?written?more?than?70?years?ago,?is?the?underpinning?of?much?Japanese?productivity?and?the?basis?of?many?businessmens?life?philosophies.?Many?carry?creased?copies?in?their?wallets. ????Anyone?worth?his?salt?in?Japanese?business?knows?and?uses?this?essay,?says?one?longtime?Japan?observer,?It?is?our?Popeyes?spinach,?said?Tatsuro?Ishida,?who?was?deputy?chairman?of?Fujisankei?Communications?Group. ????It?touches?me?at?the?core?of?my?heart,?says?Kokichi?Hagiwara,?the?67-year-old?chairman?of?Japanese/American-owned?National?Steel?in?Pittsburgh.?This?kind?of?enthusiasm?is?indispensable,?We?must?have?the?spirit?of?youth?to?make?change. ????Some?Japanese?leaders?see?the?essay?as?a?bridge?between?the?two?cultures,?If?Westerners?can?understand?Japanese?reverence?for?it,?maybe?they?can?better?understand?the?Japanese?businessmans?quest?for?spiritual?sustenance?in?the?midst?of?material?abundance. ????When?one?of?Ullmans?grandsons,?Jonas?Rosenfield,?Jr.,?was?having?dinner?in?Japan?a?few?years?ago,?Youth?came?up?in?conversation,?Rosenfield?told?his?dinner?companion,?a?Japanese?business?leader,?that?the?author?was?his?grandfather.?The?news?was?staggering. ????You?are?the?grandson?of?Samuel?Ullman??he?kept?repeating,?says?Rosenfield,?head?of?the?American?Film?Marketing?Association.?He?couldnt?get?over?it.? ????Th