Beauty(现代大学英语精读 6 第十一课 beauty 800 字 读书笔记).docVIP

Beauty Scott Russell Sanders Beauty a delightful quality associated with harmony of form or color, excellence of craftsmanship, truthfulness, originality, etc. Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. He is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. A frequent public lecturer, his essay The Force of Spirit, which opens his 2000 book of essays by the same title, was first given as a lecture before the Orion Societys Millennium Conference in 1999. The essay later appeared in the Best American Essays 2000 and was the fourth essay of Sanders to appear in the Best American series. He received the Lankan Literary Award in 1995 for his non-fiction writing and has received the Frederick Bachman Libber Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award given at IU. Sanders is a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1971. During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and as a Visiting Professor at University of Oregon, MIT, and Beloit College. He is married with two children, Eva and Jesse, both of whom he addresses in letters included in The Force of Spirit. Clumsy in my rented patent leather shoes and stiff black tuxedo, I stand among these gorgeous women like a crow among doves. He feels in his formal dress uncomfortable and awkward.He doesn’t by the shoes, he rents them. Because such formal shoes are only worn on very formal occasions and there is not much chance for the author to wear them. A crow with black feathers among white doves will present a sharp contrast. The author is in black and is stiff and awkward and maybe even appear quite out of place in the suit among those women dressed in silk with bright colors. The contrast is as sharp as the contrast between a crow and doves. But because the festival of marriage has slowed time down until, any fool can see their glory.