首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich an
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich an
admin
2013-01-20
32
问题
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich and powerful would be more accurate.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is better known for his activities outside the academy. This week he sold Africana. com, a website he created with a fellow Harvard University professor, to Time Warner. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed, though the Wall Street Journal pegged the price at more than $10 million, with Gates reaping up to $ I million. Time Warner will incorporate the site, a portal with news and information about people of African descent, into America Online when the two merge as expected. The sense is that Gates got a very good deal. The site is a rich source of scholarship but hardly a rich source of revenue.
As recently as the late 1980s Gates, who turns 50 this week, was an obscure professor penning books on literary theory only a graduate student could love. Now he can’t be avoided, He hosted a series about Africa on public television, writes occasional articles for the New Yorker, and even advises the Gore presidential campaign. He counts director Steven Spielberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and President Clinton as friends. "They’re not intimate friends," he insists.
Indeed, Gates has evolved into a kind of expert on everything African-American. "He remains the go-to person on the state of African-American affairs," said Perry Steinberg, head of American Program Bureau, a lecture agency. The 30 or so speeches Gates delivers each year are another source of income for the professor.
With fame comes controversy. Several other black intellectuals have taken him to task for not being confrontational enough. Gates has heard it before. "Me? Critics? Oh, what a shock!" But he considers himself more a descendent of historian and educator W. E. B. Du Bois than of Malcolm X. His ultimate goal is to build the field of Afro-American studies. "Fifty years from now I want there to be at least 10 great centers of Afro-American studies," he says.
If working as a consultant on Spielberg’s historical film Amistad or giving A1 Gore advice helps, so be it.
In this passage the author expresses a tone of ______.
选项
A、admiration
B、sarcasm
C、objectivity
D、disapproval
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/7r2O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
______Chinaismobilizedtogoallouttobuildthecountryintoapowerful,modern,socialistcountry.
Ourape-menforefathershadnoobviousnaturalweaponsinthestruggleforsurvivalintheopen.Theyhadneitherthepowerfult
A.Studythefollowinggraphcarefullyandwriteanessayin200words.B.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow.
Iarriveatnineo’clock,teachuntiltwelvethirtyandthenhaveameal;thatismymorning______.
Forgatheringdataaboutindividualsorgroupsatdifferentdevelopmentallevels,researcherscanusetworelatedresearchdesig
AmitaiEtzioniisnotsurprisedbythelatestheadingsaboutschemingcorporatecrooks(骗子).AsavisitingprofessorattheHarv
Sincethedawnofhumaningenuity,peoplehavedevisedevermorecunningtoolstocopewithworkthatisdangerous,boring,burd
Onceapictureisprovedtobeaforgery,itbecomesquite______.
Studythepictureasfollowing,andwriteanessayofabout200words.Youressaymustbebasedontheinstructionsasfollows;
Therelationshipbetweenformaleducationandeconomicgrowthinpoorcountriesiswidelymisunderstoodbyeconomistsandpoliti
随机试题
四环素类抗生素对哪种病原体无效
据“国内个人捐款抽样问卷调查”表明:受过良好教育的人构成了个人捐款者群体的主体。其中大专以上占30.1%,本科以上占31.1%。每一万个大专以上学历的人中,有64.6人为希望工程捐过款,而每一万个小学以下学历的人,捐款不足0.05人。在接受调查的3158名
根据《公安机关督察条例》的规定,督察机构对公安机关及其人民警察可以进行督察的事项包括()。
中国共产党第一次独立自主解决党内重大问题的会议是()。
在浮动汇率制度下,下列哪种说法是正确的()。
Wellbeforethewinterholidaysofcharityandgoodcheer,muchoftheworldisnowinaspiritofgenerosityandforbearanceto
阅读以下说明和C函数,将应填入(n)处的字句写在对应栏内。【说明】已知某二叉树的非叶子结点都有两个孩子结点,现将该二叉树存储在结构数组Ht中。结点结构及数组Ht的定义如下:#defineMAXLEAFNUM30struct
下列选项中,不属于计算机病毒特征的是
【S1】【S3】
A、Goingeverywhere.B、Sittingstill.C、Enjoyingscenery.D、Experiencinghardship.B
最新回复
(
0
)