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Absence of Malice

In a new book, Historian Ronald C. White, Jr., explains why Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, given just weeks before he died, was his greatest speech

  • By Ronald C. White, Jr.
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Lincolns second inauguration speech
President Abraham Lincoln delivering his second inauguration speech. (Library of Congress)

"For too long," says Ronald C. White, Jr., "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address has lived under the shadow of the Gettysburg Address. And yet Lincoln thought this was his best effort." White does too. In his new book, San Francisco Theological Seminary sees the speech as key to understanding Lincoln’s greatness.
White’s fascination with the 16th President was sparked at a 1993 seminar. "He was the average American, with only one year of education, a man who was really quite ugly in a certain sense—could he ever have campaigned today?—tall, awkward, gawky, clothes ill-fitting, with a tenor voice, almost a falsetto, and yet he was a huge man for his day, 6 feet 4 inches tall. Everything about him was against his being a powerful speaker. But once he began to speak, what people sensed was his integrity. He was not playing a role. And the audience of that day picked it up." More than 130 years after Lincoln’s assassination, that quality still moves people powerfully. "He had the knack of asking these simple but very profound questions. In every crisis, whether it’s September 11 or World War II, it is amazing how people return to Lincoln."
By March 1865 (until 1937, Presidents were generally inaugurated in March), America had been flayed by four years of a war that had lasted longer than anyone thought it would, but whose end, at last, seemed in sight. Not since Andrew Jackson, 32 years before, had any President been elected for a second term, and, says White, "there had been no expectation of it. There had been a series of one-term Presidents with not much to commend them." Nor did those gathered to hear Lincoln that rainy day—fans and detractors, newspaper reporters, Confederate deserters, black troops, plainclothes detectives fearful that Lincoln was going to be abducted—expect the 703-word speech the President delivered. What they heard was neither a recitation of achievement nor a statement of policy, but a sermon in which, White says, "Lincoln would ask his audience to think with him about the cause and meaning of the war."
In the six-minute address, Lincoln used repetition and alliteration to give his sentences a cadence White likens to poetry. Five hundred of the words are of a single syllable, "but that doesn’t mean it’s simple." An understated sentence such as "And the war came," says White, lifts the conflict from human event to something with a life of its own "independent of Presidents, generals and soldiers."
Now inscribed on the limestone walls of the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural Address can be understood, White believes, as a "culmination of Lincoln’s own struggle over the meaning of America, the meaning of the war, and his own struggle with slavery."
And, he adds, as a blueprint for tolerance. "Lincoln hoped that this speech was laying the groundwork for a reconstruction of compassion and reconciliation."

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《林肯選集2次就職演說 1865.3.4 (Abraham Lincoln: LETTERS AND ADDRESSES  ) 朱曾汶譯,北京 :商務,2010,頁307-09
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2013年3月30日 星期六

志文出版社

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志文/簡介:

  在迎接千禧年的前夕,回顧新潮文庫在大家的鞭策、支持與愛護下已經走過33 年-在歷史的長流中,33年雖然不算長,但可以使一個襁褓中的孩子成為社會的中堅,使壯年人進入圓熟退休階段的花甲之年。如今新潮文庫發行已逾400多 種,加上其他文庫系列,個數已逾600多種,本社,如果在引進西方思潮方面能稍盡棉薄之力,必須感謝創作這些經典作品的作者,為介紹這些書籍扮演橋梁工作 的譯者,以及無數長年來支持我們的忠實讀者…,經營文化出版事業,除了是一項企業,它同時也肩負著一種社會責任,所以我們不敢大意或鬆懈,也希望提供的產 品,能使讀者在閱讀之後受益,倘然,它有幸能成為你人生奮鬥階段中一個轉捩點、跳板或暗夜行路的一盞篝火或指標,這應該是從事文化工作者最大的酬報!   刊行的書籍包括文學、哲學、心理、禪學、傳記、電影、音樂及不同領域的經典作品或入門書。  讀者們可以通過這些書籍認識西方思潮幾百年來的重大變化與演 進,其中任何一本書




新潮文庫 特別有興趣
http://www.books.com.tw/books/editorial/pubbooklistchihwenchihwenF65D_1.php

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維基百科,自由的百科全書



志文出版社台灣資 深的出版社之一,創立於1967年, 創辦人為張清吉。志文出版社前身為長榮書店,創辦於1963年, 原為一家出租與舊書交換的小書店,當時的常客有李敖秦賢次林衡哲等知識份子。除此之外也自行出版了《西洋幽默小品》、《二次大戰祕錄》及林語堂的散文集,並編錄《英語欣賞文庫》。後來經由林衡哲(當時尚在就讀台大醫學系)的勸說,並提供自行翻譯的《羅素回憶集》及《羅素傳》,使得張清吉開始下定決心讓出版社轉型。二書的出版成為志文「新潮文庫」的先 驅,受到廣大的迴響,更獲得了兩位台大哲學教授殷海光陳鼓應的肯定,甚至親自到出版社致意。因此,林衡哲介紹了許多同學一起加入譯書的行列,包括賴奇萬、林克明、廖運範、鄭 泰安、文榮光、楊庸一、符傳孝等人,譯書以心理學精神分析為主。主力譯者曹永洋則介紹了鍾肇政葉石濤鄭清文、楊耐冬等作家及翻譯家加入翻譯行列,顏元叔在老師黎烈文辭世後,將其所譯的法國文學介紹至志文出版社印行。後來曹永洋、楊耐冬與金溟若、李永熾、孟祥森、宋碧雲、莫渝等人,成為台灣翻譯界的中堅。顏元叔與其同事胡耀恆、王夢鷗、廖祥雄、陳玲玲所譯的新潮大學叢書,成為大學生及研究生的教本。主 力譯者蕭逢年(本名吳旺財,另有筆名齊霞飛、吳憶帆)獨立翻譯《莫泊桑短篇全集》,所譯的莫泊桑短篇〈項鍊〉更選為中學生國文課本的教材。
除了外國譯書,楊牧編選的「新潮叢書」則為志文出版社開創了本土作家的新局,當時的作者包括陳世驤徐道鄰夏濟安杜維明、顏元叔、林以亮葉維廉劉述先於梨華、楊牧等人,而劉大任則因為《紅土印象》被當時的政府列 為黑名單,其書也成為禁書
志文的「新潮文庫」是張清吉參考日本岩波書店「岩波文庫」的傳統,每本書都有作家的年譜及作家資料、創作背景及作者照片。「新潮文庫」引領台灣 1970、80年代尚為學生的知識份子,譯書廣羅了文學哲學心理禪學電影等領域,為當時封閉保守的台灣社會開啟一道知識的窗口。雖然不少譯書現今已經絕版,且其譯文上的錯 誤及漏譯時常為人所詬病,素樸的封面更敵不過現下台灣五花八門的出版品,並且隨着國際著作權法的嚴格規定,志文雖然仍在出書,但卻只有能力出版公共版權書籍。但就台灣早期的出版史而言,志文確實為最重要的出版社先驅 之一,而創辦人張清吉則被業界譽為「出版界的唐吉訶德」。

[編輯] 新潮文庫書目

[編輯] 新潮叢書書目

  • 劉述先《文化哲學的試探》
  • 劉大任《紅土印象》
  • 鍾玲《赤足在草地上》
  • 王文興《玩具手鎗》
  • 杜維明《三年的畜艾》
  • 夏濟安《夏濟安選集》
  • 施叔青《拾掇那些日子》(新版重印為《那些不毛的日子》)
  • 葉維廉《秩序的生長》
  • 殷允芃《中國人的光輝》
  • 葉珊《傳說》
  • 陳世驤《陳世驤文存》
  • 於梨華《會場現形記》
  • 韓國鐄《音樂的中國》
  • 顏元叔《文學經驗》
  • 梁實秋《看雲集》
  • 林以亮《林以亮論翻譯》
  • 鄭愁予《鄭愁予詩選集》
  • 陳芳明《鏡子和影子》
  • 劉述先《生命情調的抉擇》
  • 張永祥《秋決》
  • 楊牧《傳統的與現代的》
  • 徐道鄰《中國法制史論集》
  • 趙岡《紅樓夢論集》
  • 楊牧《瓶中稿》

[編輯] 參考資料

  • 高永謀〈出版界最後的本格派:志文出版社〉,封德屏主編《台灣人文出版社30家》(台北:文訊雜誌社,2008)
  • 楊牧〈「新潮叢書」始末〉,《柏克萊精神》(台北:洪範,1977)
  • 張清吉──資深出版家好書催生者






書名鏡子和影子/陳芳明撰
其他書名
作品語文chi
版本再版 初1974
出版地/出版者/出版年台北市/志文/民67 1978
稽核項[8],344面/19公分
附件
叢書名/叢書號新潮叢書;18

2013年3月27日 星期三

印度佛教史概說/《經集》



Ajita 提問:「世上那些考察萬物的人那些學生他們應該有什麼樣的行為?」
佛陀1039比丘不應該貪戀愛欲應該心境平靜精通萬物富有思想四處遊蕩。」----《經集彼岸道品》,《经集》(巴利语佛教经典), 作者: 郭良鋆, 北京: 中国社会科学出版社, 版本: 12008/2012, .-170-71

Ken Su作的翻譯評論: 郭良鋆《經集》與,《雜阿含345經》---法友飛鴻 54 http://yifertw.blogspot.tw/2013/03/345-54.html

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1974年東海某洋老師帶我們綜觀世界主要宗教
他沒教我本本的這些東西 不過我相信這些或許他的言外之意




春節看Pier Paolo Pasolini導的《馬太福音中的耶穌》 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) 
想應該拍《《經集》中的佛陀》並保留其押韻
譬如說<大品>中說到 Ababa地獄 Ahaha地獄 Atata 地獄等三地獄的時間......

經集

《經集》是南傳佛教巴利文三藏的重要經典,屬於「五部」(長部、中部、相應部、增支部、小部)中的「小部」,是最接近原始佛教的經文彙編。全書由<蛇 品>、<小品>、<大品>、<義品>及<彼岸道品>等五品、七十經組成,共收錄了一千一百四十九偈及少部分長行(散文)。

  它的主要 內容為佛陀與牧人、農夫、婆羅門、國王、夜叉、仙人、比丘的對話,思想簡單樸素而易懂,闡述佛教的倫理道德觀,充分反映了原始佛教的風貌,為研究原始者提 供了珍貴的參考資料。此外,其譬喻說理的詩歌形式,在佛教文學上具有重要價值。在南傳佛教國家中,與《法句經》一樣廣為傳誦。


经集(巴利语佛教经典), 作者: 郭良鋆, 品牌: 中国社会科学出版社, 版本: 第1版2008/2012, .


印度佛教史概說
作者:佐佐木教悟等

譯者: 楊曾文等上海復旦大學1989 無索引其他相 有PDF


(二版)?  達和法師    :佛光出版社 :2012年



第一章  序說 第一節  地理特性
第二節  風土性格
第三節  人種的錯雜性
第四節  印度的宗教思想
第二章  古代印度的社會與宗教 第一節  雅利安人的侵入
第二節  吠陀文學
第三節  婆羅門的宗教與階級的成立
第四節  奧義書的哲學
第五節  都市的發展
第六節  社會組織的變化
第七節  沙門與婆羅門
第八節  六師外道
第三章  瞿曇.佛陀 第一節  佛傳文學與資料價值
第二節  由誕生到出家
第三節  修定與苦行
第四節  成道與覺悟的內容
第五節  初轉法輪
第六節  弟子的教化
第七節  涅槃
第八節  佛滅年代
第四章  初期的佛教教團 第一節  教團(僧伽)的成立
第二節  比丘生活方式的變化
第三節  僧院的發達
第四節  戒律體系的形成與僧伽的組織
第五節  教義大綱
第六節  第一結集
第七節  第二結集
第八節  根本分裂的傳說
第九節  根本分裂的實況
第五章  孔雀王朝時代的佛教發展 第一節  統一國家的出現
第二節  阿育王法敕
第三節  阿育王的功績
第四節  第三結集
第五節  傳道師的派遣
第六章  印度希臘王朝與佛教 第一節  孔雀王朝沒落後的印度
第二節  破佛的弗沙密多羅王
第三節  在印度的希臘人
第四節  彌蘭陀王與佛教
第五節  彌蘭陀之問
第六節  希臘人與佛教信仰
第七章  沙迦、安息時代的佛教部派動向  第一節  沙迦、安息的侵入印度
第二節  希臘化的沙迦與安息
第三節  沙迦與安息的皈依佛教
第四節  佛教部派的發展
第五節  三藏的成立
第六節  佛教石窟寺院的出現
第八章  貴霜王朝與有部佛教 第一節  貴霜侵入印度
第二節  迦膩色迦王皈依佛教
第三節  有部的發展
第四節  犧陀羅美術
第九章  印度教的形成與大乘佛教 第一節  婆羅門勢力的動向
第二節  印度教的形成
第三節  大乘佛教的興起
第四節  初期的大乘經典
第十章  娑多婆訶王朝與佛教
第一節  南印度的情勢
第二節  龍樹
第三節  空的論證法與中道
第四節  大乘佛教的總合
第五節  龍樹的後繼者
第十一章  笈多王朝時代的佛教 第一節  印度的再統一
第二節  佛典的梵語化
第三節  有部與經量部
第四節  大乘經典的新傾向
第五節  如來藏思想
第六節  瑜伽師與唯識思想
第七節  唯識說的體系化
第十二章  笈多王朝分裂後的佛教 第一節  ●噠(白匈奴)的侵入
第二節  如來藏思想的命運
第三節  瑜伽行派
第四節  中觀派
第五節  論理學的發展
第六節  大乘二學派的命運
第十三章  波羅王朝與密教 第一節  波羅王朝以前的印度
第二節  波羅王朝治下的東印度
第三節  密教的特質
第四節  真言乘
第五節  波羅王朝初期的論師
第六節  金剛乘
第七節  時輪乘
第十四章  回教徒的侵入與佛教的滅亡
第十五章  近代印度的佛教復興運動 第一節  佛教的空白時期
第二節  達摩波羅的摩訶菩提協會
第三節  安貝克的新佛教運動
第四節  日本山妙法寺大僧伽的活動
附錄一  印度佛教美術的發展
附錄二  佛教在印度鄰近地區的傳播
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Facebook首席運營官、《進取》(Lean In)一書作者不喜歡一邊在橢圓機上健身一邊使用iPad上的Kindle應用。“滿身是汗的時候,你沒法看書。”


你去年讀過的最好的的一本書是什麼? 
我喜歡蒂娜·菲(Tina Fey)的《女老闆》(Bossypants),簡直不希望它結束。它很搞笑,也很有意義。每讀一頁,我不僅捧腹大笑,還點頭思考,在書上拚命畫線、折 角。在第3頁,她給工作的女人提了個有趣的建議:“別扎馬尾辮,別穿抹胸。少掉眼淚(有些人會說:‘千萬別讓他們看見你哭。’我會說:如果你實在太生氣了 那就哭吧,能把所有人都嚇住)。”實在太精彩了。我年輕的時候也被人貼上專橫、老闆作風的標籤,所以,作為“女老闆”的先驅——好吧,現在也是——我很感 激蒂娜的直言不諱,絕不道歉,而且還那麼有趣。

你喜歡在什麼樣的時間和地點閱讀?喜歡紙質書還是電子書? 
作為一個從事技術行業的人,我可能不該承認,但我仍然更喜歡紙質書(在《進取》里,我還承認自己隨身帶着筆記簿和筆,記下我的待辦事項列表,在 Facebook公司,這種做法就和隨身帶着石板和鑿子沒兩樣)。我旅行時會帶iPad,但在家裡我喜歡打開一本書,隨手翻過,用一支真正的黃色記號筆在 上面畫重點,哪一頁重要就在上面折個角。讀完一本書,我通常會看自己折了多少頁,以此評估自己有多喜歡這本書。我還按舊式的方式讀報紙和雜誌;我試過在橢 圓機上用iPad的Kindle應用看東西,可是滿身是汗的時候,你沒法看書。

你讀書快嗎?一年能讀幾本書? 
我看書慢極了,想看的書幾乎都沒看成。我把它們堆在我的床頭桌上,等它們越摞越高的時候,我就開始強迫自己加速,要不就放棄幾本事實上我永遠不會去看的書。

推薦一本你近年來讀過的最好的經管類圖書吧。 
馬庫斯·白金漢(Marcus Buckingham)與唐納德·O·克里夫頓(Donald O.Clifton)的《現在,發現你的優勢》(Now, Discover Your Strengths)。Facebook在思考如何開發僱員才能的時候曾經參考過這本書。和所有的公司一樣,我們也有一套回饋僱員的體系。幾年 前,Facebook人力資源部門的主管洛里·格勒(Lori Goler)帶馬庫斯和我們的領導團隊見面,幫助我們改進這個回饋系統。馬庫斯和他的同事們對公司僱員做了25年的調查研究,發現了能顯著影響員工表現的 一些因素。他們發現,“成功”最重要的指標就是:在一個公司或一個部門裡,被問到“每一天你都有機會做你最擅長的事情嗎”,有多少人回答“是的”。這很有 意義。大多數員工表現研究都更注重“可發展領域”(其實就是員工的弱點),而不是他們的長處。人們被告知要努力工作,在這些領域裡不斷進步,但一個人並不 需要擅長所有事。在Facebook,我們努力以員工優勢為主導,也就是說,我們試着讓工作去適應人,而不是讓人去適應工作。我們更注重員工天賦的優勢是 什麼,把管理者的時間花在幫助他們每天都能發揮優勢上面。

最好的一本技術書呢?市面上到底有沒有能夠正確描寫硅谷的書籍? 
埃里克·里斯(Eric Ries)的《精益創業:新創企業的成長思維》(The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses),它提供了關於技術行業如何建立產品與商務的內行觀點。傳統上,公司都要依靠精心制定的商務計劃和深入測試,來造出“完美”的產 品。里斯提倡,在技術行業,要想讓產品更完善就把它推向市場,讓用戶使用它,並做出反饋,這樣你就可以學到東西,然後不斷改進(Facebook早就發現 了這個方法。我們甚至在大廈里到處貼滿即時貼,提醒大家“集中精力,不斷前進”)。

你最喜歡的作家有哪些? 
邁克爾·劉易斯(Michael Lewis)提煉複雜題材的功力就像魔術。讓你不敢相信自己的眼睛。他選取重大問題——從《大空頭》(The Big Short)里的2008年的華爾街金融危機到《家庭遊戲》(Home Game)里的父母教育問題——並揭示它們最深刻的真相。他既有卓越的分析思維能力,也深刻理解人類本性,所以才能夠在數據與事實之間遊刃有餘,做出新穎 而又深刻的敘述。不管是什麼題材,最終的結果總是那麼引人入勝而又興奮刺激。我很敬佩他。
在我床頭柜上的那堆書里,有一本已經很破舊的書,就是安娜·昆德蘭(Anna Quindlen)的《快樂生活小指南》(A Short Guide to a Happy Life)。我早就讀過它,我還想再讀一遍,把它放在床邊就能帶給我安慰。在我最絕望的時候,她的智慧帶給我安慰:“對於自己的生活,你才是世上唯一一個 享有監護權的人。你獨特的生活。你完整的生活。而不僅僅是你書桌邊的生活、大巴上的生活、小轎車裡的生活或者電腦邊的生活。生活不僅僅關乎頭腦,而是關乎 心靈。”說得太好了。
要列舉我最喜歡的作家,絕不能少了我在大學的室友卡洛琳·韋伯(Caroline Weber)。我喜歡她的書,是因為從頭到尾我都親耳聽過——包括出版過程中的各種起伏。她主要是為比較文學愛好者寫作,而不是寫給技術主管們的,但她總 是樂於給我解釋字裡行間的含義。2007年,她出版了精彩又有趣的《時尚王后:瑪麗·安托內特在革命期間的服裝》(Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution)。很少有什麼書能讓我這麼愛看。我承認我有偏心,但不僅僅是我愛看——《華盛頓郵報》的“圖書世界”把它評為年度最佳圖書之一。

你怎樣管理個人的圖書收藏呢?你喜歡把所有書都留着,還是不斷精簡呢? 
我丈夫喜歡不斷精簡;我就像個囤積的耗子。我連大學時的課本都留着——你知道,要是我突然想看叔本華的《作為意志和表象的世界》(The World as Will and Representation),就可以拿出來了。
你最珍愛的書籍是什麼,你把它們放在哪兒? 
我大學時上過海倫·文德勒(Helen Vendler)的美國詩人課,我把課上用過的書放在我的床頭櫃里(是放在抽屜裡面,這樣就不會和外面摞的一大堆混起來)。文德勒教授說,只有把一首詩背 下來,你才能真正擁有它,我完全同意這個說法。每一年,我的新年計劃中都有這麼一條:每天冥想5分鐘。雖然我從來做不到,但當我背誦自己背過的詩歌時,我 覺得效果很接近冥想。
推薦一本所有商業主管都應該讀的書吧。 
弗萊德·考夫曼(Fred Kofman)的《高效能人士的七項修鍊???  》(Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values),它對我的事業和生活有着深遠影響。幾乎每天,我都想着他教的東西——真誠交流的重要性、完美的承諾、要做“參與者”而不是“受害者”、承 擔責任。工作的時候,我曾把這本書送給很多團隊成員,我曾目睹它是如何激勵着人們一覺醒來,對自己的行為有了更清楚的認識,並且去影響他人。

你小時候最喜歡的書是什麼?有沒有最喜歡的角色或者英雄?有沒有一本書是你覺得所有孩子都應該讀的? 
我想成為梅格·穆雷(Meg Murry),她是瑪德琳·英格(Madeleine L’Engle)的小說《及時的皺紋》里大家公認有點古怪的女主角。我喜歡她和其他人一起努力,反抗不公正的體制,即便希望很小也要拚命拯救家人。我還迷 戀時間旅行這個觀念。我一直都在讓Facebook的工程師給我造一個四度空間模型(tesseract),這樣我就可以扭曲時空的構造了。但是到現在也 沒人試着去做。
給孩子們選書(或者畫冊)不算難事——馬洛·托馬斯(Marlo Thomas)的《自由地去做你和我》(Free to Be You and Me)就很好。它所傳達的信息時至如今也非常重要(這一點很悲哀),但是它的故事文筆非常優美。

你喜歡和自己的孩子們一起讀什麼書?有沒有什麼書是你特別喜歡讀給他們聽的? 
我曾和女兒一起背謝爾·希爾弗斯坦(Shel Silverstein)的《人行道的盡頭》(Where the Sidewalk Ends)裡面的《疼愛我、寵愛我、逗逗我》(Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too)這首詩,我非常珍惜那一天,一想起它就讓我微笑。我的兩個孩子都是通過希爾弗斯坦的《聰明》(Smart)那首詩學習識數的。

 Where the Sidewalk Ends/ A light in the Attic/ Run...


如果你能和某個作家會面,不管是去世的還是在生的,你會選誰呢,你會問那位作家什麼問題呢? 
我很想見J·K·羅琳(J.K. Rowling),告訴她我有多麼崇拜她的作品,她的想像力讓我多驚訝。哈利·波特系列的每一本書我都是一出版馬上就看,還迫不及待地等着下一本。我現在正在和孩子們重讀它們,每個字還是讓我那麼喜歡。她讓我用全新的方式去看待多味豆了。
本文最初發表於2013年3月17日。
翻譯:董楠




Sheryl Sandberg: By the Book


The chief operating officer of Facebook and author of “Lean In” doesn’t like to use the iPad Kindle app on the elliptical. “When you get sweaty, you can’t turn the pages.”
What was the best book you read last year? 


I absolutely loved Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” and didn’t want it to end. It’s hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy. On Page 3, she offers amazing advice to women in the workplace: “No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly. (Some people say, ‘Never let them see you cry.’ I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)” It is so, so good. As a young girl, I was labeled bossy, too, so as a former — O.K., current — bossypants, I am grateful to Tina for being outspoken, unapologetic and hysterically funny.
When and where do you like to read? Paper or electronic?
I probably shouldn’t admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. (In “Lean In,” I also admit that I carry a notebook and pen around to keep track of my to-do list, which, at Facebook, is like carrying around a stone tablet and chisel.) I travel with an iPad, but at home I like holding a book open and being able to leaf through it, highlight with a real yellow pen and dog-ear important pages. After I finish a book, I’ll often look to see how many page corners are turned down as one gauge of how much I liked it. I also still read newspapers and magazines the old-fashioned way; I tried the Kindle app for the iPad on the elliptical, but when you get sweaty, you can’t turn the pages.
Are you a fast or slow reader? How many books would you say you read in a year?
I am painfully slow and don’t get through nearly as many books as I want to. I pile them up on my night stand, and when the piles start tipping over, I force myself to speed up or to give up on the ones that, realistically, I am never going to get to.
Recommend the best business book you’ve read in recent years.
“Now, Discover Your Strengths,” by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. This book has been instrumental in how we think about developing talent at Facebook. Like all organizations, we have a system for giving feedback to our employees. A few years ago, Lori Goler, Facebook’s head of human resources, brought Marcus to meet with our leadership team to help us improve this system. Marcus and his colleagues surveyed employees for 25 years to figure out what factors predict extraordinary performance. They found that the most important predictor of the success of a company or division was how many people answered yes to the question “Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?” And this makes sense. Most performance reviews focus more on “development areas” (a k a weaknesses) than strengths. People are told to work harder and get better at those areas, but people don’t have to be good at everything. At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people’s natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.
And what’s the best book about technology? Is there a book that really gets Silicon Valley right?
“The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses,” by Eric Ries, provides a great inside look at how the tech industry approaches building products and businesses. Traditionally, companies have depended on elaborate business plans and in-depth tests to put out a “perfect” product. Ries advocates that for tech, a better way to perfect a product is to introduce it to the market and get customers using it and giving feedback, so you can learn and then iterate. (Facebook figured out this approach long ago. We even have posters all over our buildings that remind people, “Stay Focused & Keep Shipping.”)
Who are your favorite authors?
Michael Lewis’s ability to boil down the most complicated subjects is like a magic trick. You can’t believe your eyes. He takes on important issues — from the 2008 Wall Street crash in “The Big Short” to parenting in “Home Game” — and breaks them down to their deepest truths. His combination of an extraordinary analytical mind and a deep understanding of human nature allows him to weave together data and events to offer a fresh and insightful narrative. Whatever the topic, the result is always compelling and even thrilling. I am in awe of him.
Somewhere in that pile of books on my night stand sits a well-worn copy of Anna Quindlen’s “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.” I’ve read it before — and I will read it again — and just knowing it’s at my bedside gives me comfort. Her wisdom resonates for me on the deepest level: “But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.” Perfect.
I can’t list my favorite authors without including my college roommate Caroline Weber. I love her books because I hear about them from start to finish — with the many ups and downs that go into publishing. Much of what she writes is for the comp lit crowd — not tech execs — but she is always willing to explain passages to me. In 2007, she published the brilliant and fun “Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution.” There are few books that I have enjoyed as much. And while I admit I’m biased, it’s not just me — The Washington Post Book World named it one of the best books of the year.
How do you organize your personal library? Do you hold on to all books or do you like to streamline?
My husband is a streamliner; I am a pack rat. I’ve even hung on to all my textbooks from college — you know, just in case I have the sudden urge to read Schopenhauer’s “The World as Will and Representation.”
What are your most cherished books, and where do you keep them?
I keep my books from Helen Vendler’s college class on American poets in my night stand (inside the drawer, not to be confused with the stack piled up on top). Professor Vendler says that you don’t own a poem until you memorize it, and I agree. Every year my New Year’s resolution is to meditate for just five minutes a day. I never do it, but when I recite one of the poems I memorized, I think it comes close to having the same effect.
What book should every business executive read?
“Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values,” by Fred Kofman, had a profound effect on my career and life. I think about his lessons almost every day — the importance of authentic communication, impeccable commitments, being a player not a victim, and taking responsibility. I have given this book to so many team members at work, and I’ve seen it inspire people overnight to be more aware of their actions and impact on others.
What were your favorite books as a child? Do you have a favorite character or hero from one of those books? Is there one book you wish all children would read?
I wanted to be Meg Murry, the admittedly geeky heroine of “A Wrinkle in Time,” by Madeleine L’Engle. I loved how she worked with others to fight against an unjust system and how she fought to save her family against very long odds. I was also captivated by the concept of time travel. I keep asking Facebook’s engineers to build me a tesseract so I, too, could fold the fabric of time and space. But so far no one has even tried.
Choosing one book (and album) for all children to read is easy: Marlo Thomas’s “Free to Be You and Me.” Its messages are — sadly — still relevant today, but its stories are beautifully written.
What books have you enjoyed reading with your own children? Is there a book you particularly love to read to them?
I cherish the day my daughter learned to recite “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too” from Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” Just thinking about it makes me smile. And both my kids first learned to understand numbers from Silverstein’s poem “Smart.”
If you could meet any writer, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you want to know? 
I would love to meet J. K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every Harry Potter book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.
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2013年3月26日 星期二

《巴赫傳》The Bach Reader:

The Bach Reader:

A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents
這本書都是原始資料依時序的英文翻譯
我從它知道許多中文的翻譯有問題

譬如說 Paule de Bouchet 《巴哈: 世人稱頌的樂長》台北: 時報文化 1997

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[]克勞斯·艾達姆(Klaus Eidam)/著,《巴赫傳:真實的一生》王泰智/譯,北京商務印書館,2000年出版。
這一本號稱實地去看些 巴赫相關的文獻. 一般的巴赫都是人云亦云

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Tim Dowley 《巴哈 》台北:智庫文化 1995



 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUAOWI-tkGg 
Rostropovich -- BACH (DVD Completo)

Safire's Political Dictionary/Japan Times, New York Times announce publishing agreement



Japan Times, New York Times announce publishing agreement

The Japan Times announced Monday that it had signed a publishing agreement with The New York Times Co. in the Japanese market.
The agreement will see the print edition of The Japan Times bundled with the International New York Times from Monday to Saturday. The first issue of the combined product, which will be known as The Japan Times/International New York Times, will be published on Oct. 16.
The International New York Times is currently known as the International Herald Tribune. On Feb. 25, the New York Times Company announced that its Paris-based sister publication will be re-branded as an international version of The New York Times and will be tailored and edited specifically for global audiences.
In announcing the agreement, Takeharu Tsutsumi, president of The Japan Times, emphasized the benefits that the new product will offer readers. “The Japan Times will remain a proudly independent newspaper, and will continue to offer our readers the very best in English-language journalism available in Japan. By packaging The Japan Times with the International New York Times, we will also provide our readers with the global edition of one of the best-known and most widely respected newspapers in the world,” Tsutsumi said.
The JT/INYT will consist of two separate sections. The front section will feature the same Japan Times content that current readers enjoy. The back section will be edited from the Hong Kong, New York, Paris and London offices of the International New York Times and will draw on the global network and vast journalistic resources of The New York Times.
Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, the publisher of the International New York Times, said: “We are thrilled that the International New York Times will be made available to Japan Times readers later this year.
“As the International Herald Tribune, we have built a reputation as the premier source of news, opinion and commentary for global citizens, and as the International New York Times we will further build on this distinctive international voice.”
Subscribers to JT/INYT will also enjoy significant benefits in the digital domain, including unlimited free access to the New York Times’ popular website, NYTimes.com, and NYTimes-branded apps for use on smartphones and tablets.
On Sundays, when there will be no JT/INYT, The Japan Times will publish a separate newspaper that will be delivered to JT/INYT subscribers and sold at newsstands.
Newsstand prices and subscription rates for the JT/INYT have not yet been determined, although Japan Times President Tsutsumi said he intends to set them competitively, taking into consideration the circumstances of the market.


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2007/06/23 17:41
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"Compiles political terminology definitions that are discursive, historical and entertaining." --Publishers Weekly
"What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). Last updated in 1993, before the U.S. political lexicon had acquired "soccer moms" (1996), "fuzzy math" (2000) and "Swift Boat spot" (2004), the book's newest version includes rich linguistic bequeathals from both the Clinton and second Bush White Houses."--Newsweek
"William Safire's Language and Politics has long been used as a source of definitions for insider words and phrases commonly used in politics. Updated and expanded for the first time since 1993, Safire renames the book and adds items like "war on terror," "chad" and "axis of evil" to the collection. Containing not only words' definitions, but also their history, Safire explains each entry in an informative, witty and easy-to-read way." --Campaigns & Elections
"Safire gives us straightforward definitions and fascinating etymologies for the common and uncommon political terms of American history...Clearly Safire's Political Dictionary has many uses, and not just as a tool for looking up "moonbat" and "dead cat bounce." It provides definitions, etymologies, and examples of usage for any political word or phrase in the American vocabulary, and always with a dash of class and humor."--First Things
"Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America...For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship." --Dictionary.com


Product Details

896 pages; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-534061-7ISBN10: 0-19-534061-2


About the Author(s)

William Safire began his writing career as a speechwriter in the Nixon Administration, became a columnist with the New York Times --as its resident token conservative--and has for many years written a weekly "On Language" column in the New York Times magazine. His many books include Lend Me Your Ears, How Not to Write, Scandalmonger , and Wit and Wisdom . He lives in New York City.


Review: Safire's 'Dictionary' adds definition to politi-speak

By Liam Julian, Special to the Times


In print: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Elections are difficult for Floridians. No need to bring up 2000 when the Sunshine State's role in 2008 has already caused consternation from West Palm Beach to Walla Walla.
Thank goodness, then, for Safire's Political Dictionary, the fifth edition of which is now available for public consumption. With the fate of Florida's Democratic delegates decided (Howard Dean: "Cut with a sword each delegate into two pieces, and give each candidate half!"), Floridians have a useful manual with which to decipher the rest of the process.
This dictionary is no dry specimen, though. It's a really interesting read. Many have heard of the three-martini lunch, for example, but how many know the phrase was birthed as a symbol of tax unfairness, surfacing in a speech by Florida Gov. Reubin Askew in 1972? Speaking at the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, Askew said of average Americans, "What can we expect them to think, when the business lunch of steak and martinis is tax-deductible, but the workingman's lunch of salami and cheese is not?"
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, "picked up the 'martini lunch' and improved it: 'The rich businessman can deduct his three-martini lunch, but you can't take off the price of a baloney sandwich." Safire winds down the entry with a joke — "Recipe for a Johnson (or Nixon, Carter, or Bush 41) cocktail: economy on the rocks" — and concludes, "For the metaphoric use of delicatessen meats, see BALONEY and SALAMI TACTICS."
What readers of Safire's Political Dictionary will learn is what readers of his weekly "On Language" pieces already know: Safire loves to play with words. That's why the former Nixon-Agnew speechwriter (Spiro Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism" was Safire's) and longtime columnist is such a joy to read, whether one is a knee-jerk liberal or throws in his lot with the dinosaur wing.
Liam Julian is a St. Petersburg native and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Safire's Political Dictionary
By William Safire
Oxford University Press, 896 pages, $22.95

[Last modified: Jun 14, 2008 04:30 AM]




2013年3月25日 星期一

作家劉墉


這篇可能是 劉墉 《我不是教你詐⑤》2007年(內容揭露醫療內幕)的引言?


別死得不明不白   醫療真實面              劉墉

我父親是學藥劑的,在我二伯開的藥廠裡工作了幾年,也當過「陜西戒煙所」所長。
他去世,留給我一堆醫藥方面的書,那些書我都看不懂, 但有個好處,就是我十三歲時家裡失火,整面書架成了「防火牆」,所以沒有波及鄰居。
我的鄰居當時是台大醫院住院部主任, 父親死後,母親常說只怪他們搬來晚了,否則早認識,我父親也不會死, 她這番話,我過了十幾年才懂。
母親也常怨父親學醫藥,沒好處,反有壞處,是父親自以為內行,又跟醫生打成一片,大家嘻嘻哈哈,直到把病拖壞了,那些醫生朋友才明著跟他講:
「我們醫院治不了,您還是轉院吧!」
◎ 家裡失火之後三年,我總咳嗽、胸痛,去看了兩次醫生,都說沒問題,只是神經痛。
隔不久,我半 夜吐血,吐了半盆,進入台北中心診所,醫生看兩眼,照個「片 子」,沒再管我,卻把我母親叫到隔壁房間罵,說人都快死了,怎麼妳都不知道?難道沒看過醫生?接著,我休學一年。

◎ 又隔兩年,我總覺得心跳氣急,有人介紹一位國外回來的名醫,診斷為「精神緊張,心臟不協調」,給我先開鎮靜劑,又開一種降血壓的藥,
看了好幾年,沒改善,幸虧護士暗示我去看新陳代謝科。
我看了台大的 陳芳武 醫師,被罵一頓:「怎麼眼睛都凸了才來?」沒多久,他 就把我的「甲狀腺功能亢進」治好了。陳芳武真是位極有個性的好醫生,他不但罵我、罵我上一個醫生,也罵同事。
為了治凸眼, 我去看眼科,那醫生為我在眼球後面注射可體松,陳芳武知道 了,拉著我,衝過長長的走廊和一層樓,把那眼科醫生罵一頓:「你給他打,他自己不分泌了,怎麼辦?」
◎ 大學畢業第二年,我進入中視新聞部,跑醫藥和警政,這兩條線真不錯,使我能看到不少好醫生、聽說不少醫藥界的黑幕
還有,
就是幫人找關係,使會「救死」的,成為「救活」。
當然,也就知道許多明明能「救活」的,卻被「救死」。
我也有不少這 種消息,都是從護士那兒聽來的,因為我除了跑新聞,晚上也 在家教國畫,有兩個學生同在一家大醫院工作。
我常聽她們「咬耳朵」,說當天手術室裡某笨蛋 又弄死一個。

◎ 跑了五年醫藥警政,我出國,有兩回走在街上突然頭暈,差點被車撞死,看洋醫生,說只是「失神lost concentration 」,多吃點維他命就好。
直到多年後,我去報稅,會計師的丈夫是哥倫比亞大學醫學院「胸腔內科」的教授,而且診所在旁邊,我進去聊到這事,就為我「聽聽」。
他才聽兩下就說不對勁,你肺下頭都沒聲音,支氣管不通嘛!怎麼一直沒發現?
我又去看敏感科的醫生,用個機器又吹又吸,
才發現肺只「工作」了百分之五十二。
如果我再不治,隨時可能報銷。

◎ 六年前,我老母在公園腦溢血,送到醫院,雖然急救回來,卻不能走、不能說話,也聽不懂話了,拖了一年,終於辭世。
我後來勤讀醫學書籍,發現許多對腦溢血病人該做的,急診室都沒做,
就請教我的醫生朋友。朋友笑笑說:
「誰讓你沒立刻找你熟識的醫生去,有自己的人在,他們就不同了。
我說要告那醫院。
朋友又笑笑, 告不贏的,她太老了!不值錢了!然後叮囑我一堆避免被「試 刀」的方法。他說得好,
初出道的醫生總得慢慢上手吧!用誰試 刀呢?當然是沒關係的、不怕被醫死的
這使我想起我太太美髮師的姐夫,肝癌,美國醫生動手 術,打開來,又縫上了,說沒辦法,等死吧!所幸那人的兒子在 台大學醫,立刻找教授、尋門路,把病人接回台灣動手術,居然又活了五年,還四處旅行,享受不少餘生。

◎ 我的醫生朋友太多了,從我院子扔出一顆石頭,打到的八成是醫生。我的左鄰是小兒科,左對門是腳科,右對門是心臟科。我一個禮拜打三天球,其中兩天是醫生球友,一位是醫院院長,一位是牙科名醫。正因此,我耳濡目染、旁敲側擊、諮詢請益,對醫界有了更 深的了解。
我也很喜歡台北的醫生,當我血脂化驗報告出來,正常。
醫生說「對不起!你正常,不能繼續給你開藥,必須不正常才成。」
我說「正常是 因為吃藥啊!」
那醫生很坦白,嘆口氣說礙於健保規定。
我又跟 台灣醫界的朋友說,他們居然一瞪眼:
「你笨!你停藥兩個禮拜 再驗嘛!」
另外一位說得更棒:
「你早上吃一餐油油的早點,再 去驗,就說你是『空腹』。」

◎ 我又跟大陸的朋友說這笑話,豈知他們根本沒感覺,叫我上網,自己看看,那裡的黑幕有多少。
我在美國的一位富豪朋友,認識一堆達官顯貴,竟然也上過當。
他在大陸摔傷就醫,說髖關節裂了,花了不少銀子、躺了不少日子。
他後來把X 光片帶回美國,醫生看了居然說:「根本沒裂嘛!」問題是他前些時胸痛,幸虧及時送醫,做了心臟血管支架,撿回一條老命。
才發現他的美國醫生也粗心,多年來居然沒給他作過「跑步機」運動心肺功能測驗

◎ 過去半世紀,我親自經歷,也冷眼旁觀。
看了太多可憐可悲可恨可憾的「醫界現象」。
也藏身在社會角落,親自去訪查求證,發現藥局醫院的許多詭異。
但我都忍著,雖然寫了四本《我不是教你詐》,卻未曾涉及醫藥的題材。
因為我知道自己還是外行,沒資格論斷。
直到大前年,我的一位好朋友,對我說他怎麼被醫生延誤了。
明明可以「立刻」安排美國最先進的醫療,
他在台灣的醫生卻說得靠特殊關係,才排得上,然後要他一次一次「進貢」。
他對我述說時,已經病危,
脖子削去三分之一,聲音好像由個小盒子裡傳來,顫抖而帶有回音。
我聽得很吃力,但我答應他,要寫出來,使別人不再上當。

◎ 於是有了這本書,從醫、療、藥、檢的虛偽、不肖商人的卑劣、醫療體系的疏失、貪官污吏的包庇到民眾應有的警覺。
我沒有要鬥爭哪些特定對象,只是寫出我在各地的觀察與感觸。
所以書裡的故事就算是真的,也經過改寫,任何人名

( 除了這前言裡提到的良醫大名) 、藥名、補品、化�品名,都是虛構。
很巧的,本書 完成時,美國有位哈佛大學醫學院教授顧魯曼(Jerome Groopman, M.D.) 也 出版了一本《醫生是怎麼想的(How Doctors Think) 》, 裡面坦承了許多醫界的問題。根據顧魯曼統計,在美國有近五分之一的病人被誤診,每年因此冤死的達到九萬人。
美國如此,台灣呢?中國大陸呢?
只怕多得多!
請多想想、多 問問、多看看、多學學,以免有一天,我們或我們的親人,明明 能「救活」,卻硬是被「救死」。死在病人的無知、醫生的誤診、家屬的粗心。

而且死得傾家蕩產、不明不白……
 

  最好的方法,是小心照顧好自己的身體,千萬不要病,平時要多方面吸收一點醫療保健知識,自己懂得判斷,要留意自己身體的感覺,身體最能告訴你出了什麼毛病,只不過我們通常都不肯聽,而只相信醫生的話。做不到照顧好自己身體的話,那就平時多積點陰德,希望生病時老天看在你積陰德的份上,安排個有醫德的醫生給你。
 

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