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
考研
She knew how to make an entrance. Her dark hair cut in a severe pageboy, Ayn Rand would sweep into a room with a long black cape
She knew how to make an entrance. Her dark hair cut in a severe pageboy, Ayn Rand would sweep into a room with a long black cape
admin
2011-03-11
31
问题
She knew how to make an entrance. Her dark hair cut in a severe pageboy, Ayn Rand would sweep into a room with a long black cape, a dollar-sign pin on her lapel and an ever present cigarette in an ivory holder. Melodramatic, yes, but Rand didn’t have time to be subtle. She had millions of people to convert to objectivism, her philosophy of radical individualism, limited government and avoidance of altruism and religion. Her adoring followers--some called them a cult--revered her as the high priestess of laissez-faire capitalism until her death in 1982 at age 77.
The bad economy has been good news for Rand’s legacy. Her fierce denunciations of government regulation have sent sales of her two best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, soaring. Yet her me-first brand of capitalism has been exccoriated (严厉批评) for fomenting (引发) the recent financial crisis. And her most famous former acolyte-onetime Fed chairman Alan Greenspan--has been blamed for inflating the housing bubble by refusing to intervene in the market.
In the midst of the newly rekindled debate, two excellent biographies have just been published: Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday; 592 pages), is a comprehensive study, in novelistic detail, of Rand’s personal life, and Goddess of the Market : Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jenniter Burns (Oxford; 369 pages), leans more heavily on Rand’s theories and politics.
From her earliest years, Rand was a woman on a mission. Born in 1905 to a bourgeois Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Rand was 12 when the Bolshevik Revolution took place. Her family, suddenly poor, was forced to flee, and Rand’s hatred of communism and any sort of collectivism would guide her life. Arriving in the US in 1926 with a new name, Ayn (rhymes with fine) made her way to Hollywood, where she had modest success as a screenwriter and married an aspiring actor, Frank O’Connor. Her politicization came when she and her husband worked on Republican Wendell Willkie’s losing presidential campaign in 1940. According to Burns, "Before Willkie she had been pro-capitalist yet pessimistic, writing ’The capitalist world is low, unprincipled, and corrupt. ’ Now she celebrated capitalism as the ’noblest, cleanest and most idealistic system of all’. "
The Fountainhead, an epic novel chronicling the struggles of an architect named Howard Roark against conventional values, was her breakout work. In her race to get the sprawling 700-page book to press, she began taking the amphetamine Benzedrine (一种兴奋剂的名称) to fuel her efforts. "Rand used it to power her last months of work on the novel, including several 24-hour sessions correcting page proofs," writes Burns. The book brought Rand financial security and fame.
What do we learn about Ayn Rand?
选项
A、She was born in a proletarian Jewish family.
B、She liked communism and any sort of colleetivism.
C、She and her husband had never worked for Republican.
D、Her original name wasn’t Ayn.
答案
D
解析
文章第四段第四句说“1926年她用了新名字艾恩(优美的韵律)来到美国,向好莱坞进发”,由此可知艾恩不是她原来的名字,故[D]正确。本段第二句说她“1905年生于圣彼得堡的一个中产阶级犹太家庭”,所以[A]错误。第三句明确表明她厌恶共产主义和任何形式的集体主义,故[B]错误。第五句说“她和她的丈夫曾经为失败的共和党温德尔·维尔基总统选举运动工作”,故[C]错误。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/pEp4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
In1971ateamofexpertspreparedareportentitled"TheLimitsofGrowth,"based(1)_____acomputeranalysisoffutureeconom
In1971ateamofexpertspreparedareportentitled"TheLimitsofGrowth,"based(1)_____acomputeranalysisoffutureeconom
Whatdoesthewritermeanbysaying"Butthesewerenotjusttheisolatedactionsofascientist"?Whichofthefollowingisno
Thefollowingparagraphsaregiveninawrongorder.ForQuestions41-45,youarerequiredtoreorganizetheseparagraphsintoa
Accordingtothepassage,whatmattersmostinletterdeliveryinBritainisthat______TheBritishPostOfficepraisesthecod
Intheearly1800s,groupsofEnglishworkerswreckedmachinesthattheyfeltthreatenedtheirjobs.(46)Theywerecalled"Luddi
Intheearly1800s,groupsofEnglishworkerswreckedmachinesthattheyfeltthreatenedtheirjobs.(46)Theywerecalled"Luddi
Today’sworkerisnolongerwillingtoworkinanauthoritariananddehumanizingenvironment.Workerswantmeaningintheirwork
Amysterious"blackcloud"approachestheearth—ourplanet’sweatherisseverelyaffected.ThroughouttherestofJuneandJ
随机试题
某企业2018年年初拥有A、B两栋房产,A栋自用,B栋出租,每月收取租金10万元(不含增值税)。A、B两栋房产的原值分别为1200万元和1000万元,2018年4月底B栋房产租赁到期,自2018年5月1日起,该企业由A栋搬至B栋办公,同时对A栋房产开始进
用主要矛盾和次要矛盾、矛盾的主要方面和次要方面关系的原理,说明我国坚持以经济建设为中心和“两手抓”的重要意义。
文化景观这一概念是1992年12月在美国圣菲召开的联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会第16届会议提出并纳入《世界遗产名录》中的。文化景观代表《保护世界文化和自然遗产公约》第一条所表述的“自然与人类的共同作品”,在我国“世界遗产”中的文化景观是()。
在现阶段,我们的工作重心是发展经济,阶级斗争已经不是我国社会的主要矛盾,这意味着公安机关的专政职能可以削弱。()
设平面域D由直线y=x,y=一1及X=1所围成.则
人口普查规定统一的标准时间是为了______。
索引属于______。
设某棵树的度为3,其中度为2、1、0的结点个数分别为3、4、15。则该树中总结点数为
TheCapitalBuildingwasthehighestbuildinginSaoPaulo.Peoplesetfireonthe11thfloor.
A、Protectingbuyersofpaintings.B、Whycopiesoffamouspaintingsaremade.C、HowpaintingsaresoldintheUnitedStates.D、Pr
最新回复
(
0
)