Unit 12 Social Critic with Verve
充满活力的社会批评家
verve：an energetic style；vitality
That magazine has a lot of verve.
那个杂志办得很有生气。
The audience ro to his verve and wit.
观众们对他生气勃勃和富于机智的表演热烈喝彩。
世界遗产名录Background Information
Susan Sontag （1933~2004）
Novelist, essayist and critic.
A highly visible public figure since the mid-1960's, Ms. Sontag wrote four novels, dozens of essays and a volume of short stories and was also an occasional filmmaker, playwright and theater director. For four decades her work was part of the contemporary canon作品, discusd everywhere from graduate minars to the pages of popular magazines to the Hollywood movie.
Ms. Sontag's work made a radical break with traditional postwar criticism in America. She advocated an aesthetic approach to the study of culture, championing style over content.
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"The theme that runs through Susan's writing is this lifelong struggle to arrive at the proper balance between the moral and the aesthetic," Leon Wieltier, literary editor of The New Republic and an old friend of Ms. Sontag's, said
Ms. Sontag's best-known books, all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, include the nov
els "Death Kit" (1967)《死亡匣子》, "The Volcano Lover" (1992) and "In America" (2000); the essay collections "Against Interpretation" (1966), "Styles of Radical Will" (1969)《激进意志的样式》and "Under the Sign of Saturn" (1980)《在土星的标志下》; the critical studies "On Photography" (1977) and "AIDS and Its Metaphors" (1989); and the short-story collection "I, Etcetera" (1978)《我，及其他》. One of her most famous works, however, was not a book, but an essay, "Notes on Camp," published in 1964 and still widely read.
Widely regarded as one of the leading American intellectuals, Susan Sontag helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century. 网店推广Read the following and know more about Ms. Sontag.
Ms. Sontag was born Susan Ronblatt in Manhattan on Jan. 16, 1933, the daughter of Jack and Mildred Ronblatt. 文章电影Her father was a fur trader in China, and her mother joined him there for long periods, leaving Susan and her younger sister in the care of relatives. When Susan was 5, her father died in China of tuberculosis. Her mother moved the familgta5怎么挣钱
y to Tucson [tu:'sɔn] 图森[美国亚利桑那州南部城市] , spending the next veral years there. In Arizona, Susan’s mother met Capt. Nathan Sontag, a World War II veteran nt there to recuperate [ri'kju:pəreit] v. 恢复,使恢复健康,使恢复精神
钢丝虫He is still recuperating from his operation.
他动手术后仍在恢复中。
The couple were married — Susan took her stepfather’s mane — and the family moved to Los Angles.
For Susan, who graduated from high school before her 16th birthday, the philistinism ['filistinizəm]平庸 of American culture was a torment she vowed early to escape. “My greatest dream,” she later wrote, “was to grow up and come to New York and write for Partisan Review《党派论坛》and be read by 5,00 people.”
She would get her wish — Ms. Sontag burst onto the scene 一举成名 with “Notes on ‘三只松鼠品牌故事Camp’,”《坎普札记》which was published in Partisan Review — but not before she earn
ed a bachelor91好色’s and two master’s degrees from prestigious American universities; studied at Oxford on a fellowship; and married, became a mother and divorced eight years later, all by the time she turned 26. after graduating from high school, Ms. Sontag spent a mester at the University of California, Berkeley, before transferring to the University of Chicago, from which she received a bachelor’s degree in 1951. At Chicago she wandered into a class taught by the sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, who would write the celebrated study Freud: The Mind of the Moralist 《弗洛伊德：道德主义地头脑》(Viking, 1959). He was, she would say, the first person with whom she cold really talk; they were married 10 days later. Ms. Sontag was 17 and looked even younger, clad 应该是过去分词habitually in blue jeans,
