伯克利反叛者的伊甸园.docx

伯克利反叛者的伊甸园 Though the identity of the city has rarely proved 2)steadfast, 3)Berkeley still qualifies for many as cultural 4)shorthand for “ 5)hippie 6)holdover ”. However, anyone who thinks that Berkeley is just a hotbed of radicalism is 7)in for a surprise. College Avenue, the city s 8)main drag, is packed with more 9)BlackBerry-10)toting 11)hipsters than beard-12)sporting hippies. The city s 13)revamped shops are able to compete, label-to- label, with SoHo s sophisticated boutiques, and its restaurants match its bigger neighbor, 14)Oakland, across San Francisco Bay. Berkeley is a city of diverse neighborhoods. On a bright, cool weekend, I returned to Berkeley to explore some of those neighborhoods. I had arrived at sunset and juicy colors were 15)backlighting San Francisco, the 16)Golden Gate Bridge, and the bay. Berkeley is roughly shaped and situated like stadium seating for San Francisco; its bayside flatlands are backed by a long, west- facing hill line, and it possess some of the Bay Area most spectacular views. Just beyond the windows lay 17)manicured lawns 18)studded with rose bushes and 19)palm trees. It looked 20)placid and beautiful, 21)belying Berkeley s22)flow-cehrild image. I found 23)funky old Berkeley still alive and well the next morning. I strolled down narrow, storefront-lined Telegraph Avenue, with its24)counterculture 25)dropouts and vendor-fueled street scene, table after table bearing 26)tie-dye, dream-catchers, and beaded jewelry. Though it 27)abuts the campus, Telegraph Avenue has always seemed a world removed from 28)academia. But dozens of 29)banners depicting the University of California at Berkeley s 18 Nobel Prize 30)laureates — 31)Czeslaw Milosz here, 3场田0 Segr e there ― hung from the streetlights, and connected some shared spirit of iconoclasm with the 33)original-V olkswagen-van set. But academia and hippies are definitely not the only things Berkeley has. Wanting a coffee, I headed around the corner to the original Peets Coffee a