2015考研英语阅读上世纪的名流_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读上世纪的名流

　　1956年，蒙哥马利市爆发巴士抵制运动，一名来自德克斯特大街浸信会教堂的牧师声名鹊起。他，就是马丁路德金。几个月后，时年26岁的金找到贝拉方特，那时，后者28岁，新得美誉通吃美国妇女的小黑哥。贝拉方特不信教，也不信非暴力，却因金的谦逊而折服。九年后的一幕最是感人心脾：那是在巴黎举行的一场民权筹款会，到场的尽是知名人士，金，这位诺贝尔和平奖桂冠竟为在场的群星盛放实物，以此向为他而来的群星们行以谦恭之举，表达心中无尽感激。贝拉方特的这本书中，明星自传常有的缺点满眼皆是：不是提一笔名人来拔高自己身价，就是报复之辞，要么自我吹捧几句，再不就是描写原配与孩子时，不甚殷切。所以，在对金的刻画，更凸显出他那份知性的温情与平实的情怀。

　　After the 1960s, My Song goes downhill quickly, but that is hardly a surprise:maintaining fame is never as interesting as achieving it. The book is also too long. MrBelafonte s ramblings about business deals that went sour and his agonising over theextraordinary privileges his children enjoyed grow tedious. And then there is his politicaljudgment. Standing with Martin Luther King junior to fight injustice and oppression is quitedifferent from standing with practised political oppressors such as Hugo Chvez and FidelCastro. Still, Mr Belafonte does have a remarkable song to sing. Given its breadth, and thewelcome disappearance of the segregated world in which it began, such a song will not besung again.