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11页1、These aren‘t idle questions.Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot about what you are thinking and about what your society is thinking – in other words, about where you and your society are. “Music expressed its times,‖ says sociologist Irving Horowitz.Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum, a place where ideas clash and crash.He sees it as a place where American society struggles to define and redefine its feelings and beliefs.这些并不是闲谈。有些社会学家认为对这些问题的回答可以充分说明你在想些什么以及社会在想些什么——也就是说，有关你和社会的态度。社会学家欧文?霍洛威茨说：“音乐表现其时代。霍洛威茨把摇滚乐的舞台视为某种辩论的论坛，一个各种思想交锋的场所。他把它看作是一个美国社会努力为自己的感情及信仰不断重新进行解释的地方。2、When he appeared on the Ed.Sullivan Sunday night variety show in front of millions, a kind of ―debat took place.Most of the older viewers frowned, while most of the younger viewers applauded.当他通过电视上埃德?沙利文的星期日晚间的综艺节目出现在千百万人面前时，就引起了某种辩论。多数年纪大的观众眉头紧皱，而大多数年轻观众则报以掌声欢迎。3、Today‘s heroes – some of them, anyway – tell us they enjoy their rewards.“And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never conceived of us billion-dollar babies. The particular ―culture hero who sings that is Alice cooper.今天的英雄们——至少其中一部分人——告诉我们，他们很喜欢所得到的报偿。“我暗自嘲笑这些先生们和女士们,他们从没想到过我们会成为金娃娃。”演唱这支歌曲是“文化英雄”艾利丝?库珀。4、He ends it by pretending to end his life – with a guillotine.、他表演的最后一幕是假装在断头台上结束自己的生命。5、6、7、the 1950s.他只不过是体现了50年代青少年那种心灰意冷的精神状态。24页1、Most disturbing of all was our discovery of the population explosion.It dawned on us rather suddenly that the number of passengers on the small spaceship we inhabit is doubling about every forty years.So long as the earth‘s population keeps growing at this cancerous rate, all of the other problems appear virtually insoluble.The quality of life is likely to become steadily worse for everybody.Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome. The landscape will get more cluttered, the air and water even dirtier.最令人不安的是我们发现了人口爆炸这一问题。我们突然意识到我们这艘载人小飞船上的乘客数目大约每40年翻一倍。只要地球上的人口持续地按这个可怕的速度增长，其他所有问题都将无法解决。我们的城市会变得越来越拥挤，景色