tailieunhanh - The Americanization of Edward Bok 5

The Americanization of Edward Bok 5. Đây là một cuốn sách rất ý nghĩa, dễ đọc và hàm chứa nhiều bài học hay về phong cách sống, về quản trị cuộc đời. Có những bài học có thể áp dụng cho cuộc sống hiện tại của mình. Đặc biệt là câu chuyện kể về việc Edward đã thành công như thế nào khi nỗ lực xây dựng tuần báo The Ladies Home Journal và những bài học về cách tạo dựng cuộc sống cho riêng mình: Hãy đơn giản hóa mọi khó khăn, nghiêm khắc với bản thân, quyết tâm. | Let me go down-stairs Edward interrupted. No you stay right here said Mr. Beecher. Why Mr. Beecher How can we Isn t Edward with you You are keeping me waiting for you was the quiet and firm answer. There was a moment s hesitation. Then the door opened and the figures of the two girls appeared. Now turn up the gas please as it was said Mr. Beecher. But Mr. Beecher-- You heard me Up went the light and the two beautiful girls of the box stood in their night-dresses. Now why did you run away asked Mr. Beecher. Why Mr. Beecher How can you ask such a question pouted one of the girls looking at her dress and then at Edward. Exactly said Mr. Beecher. Your modesty leads you to run away from this young man because he might possibly see you under a single light in dresses that cover your entire bodies while that same modesty did not prevent you all this evening from sitting beside him under a myriad of lights in dresses that exposed nearly half of your bodies. That s what I call a distinction with a difference--with the difference to the credit neither of your intelligence nor of your modesty. There is some modesty in the dresses you have on there was precious little in what you girls wore this evening. Good night. You do not believe Mr. Beecher Edward asked later in decollete dressing for girls No and even less for women. A girl has some excuse of youth on her side a woman none at all. A few moments later he added A proper dress for any girl or woman is one that reveals the lady but not her person. Edward asked Mrs. Beecher one day whether Mr. Beecher had ever expressed an opinion of his sister s famous book Uncle Tom s Cabin and she told this interesting story of how the famous preacher read the story When the story was first published in The National Era in chapters all our family excepting Mr. Beecher looked impatiently for its appearance each week. But try as we might we could not persuade Mr. Beecher to read it or let us tell him anything about it. It s folly for you .