advE 2-5 love_is_a_fallacy final 新版张汉熙高级英语第二册第二课ppt.ppt

Max Shulman(1919-1988) He began writing Dobie Gillis stories in 1945 for various humor magazines. In 1951, these were collected and published as a book entitled The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, from which our text is taken.  Max Shulman(1919-1988) In 1959, Shulman published another volume of Dobie stories, I Was A Teenage Dwarf. That same year, Shulman created and produced “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” TV series. The show had a run of 147 episodes between 1959 and 1963. Shulman also wrote: “Barefoot Boy With Cheek“《无礼的赤脚少年》, “The Feather Merchants“《衣冠楚楚的商人》, a comic novel about military life “Rally Round The Flag Boys“《孩子们，团结在旗帜周围吧》, which became a best-seller and then a movie You say that someone has a cheek when you are annoyed or shocked at something unreasonable that they have done. (INFORMAL) Im amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place... I still think it‘s a bit of a cheek sending a voucher收据 rather than a refund偿还... The cheek of it, lying to me like that! What Does Feather Merchant Mean During WWII in the U.S. Army, stateside and in the European Theater of Operations, feather merchant described a person who talked good deal but whose speech was light in content. I suspect the same was true on the Pacific side. During the early days of the US Army, perhaps as early as the Revolutionary War, it was used to describe unscrupulous merchants who would include rocks and other heavy objects to add weight to the feathers sold to the government that were used for soldiers pillows, mattresses and such, so to increase the contractors profits. I believe I first read about it in Max Shulmans book Rally Round the Flag Boys, which was also made into a movie with Paul Newman and several other popular actors of the era (1950-60s). Shulman was the author of the Dobbie Gillis Books, including Barefoot Boy with Cheek, or something like that, and one book, which I did not read, that included The Feather Merchan