京極夏彥，得過直木獎與日本推理作家協會獎的小說名家，迎來了作家出道三十週年。他接受雜誌《婦人公論》採訪時說：
「很多人說買一堆書又不讀，很浪費空間與時間。但我完全不這樣認為。書只要買就好，讀或不讀都無所謂，買下自己覺得好的書，光這樣做能豐富人生。
我的書常常被人說是磚頭、讀不完，沒關係啊。你可以當作枕頭也可以拿來墊腳，捧著讀還能鍛鍊肌肉。所以，只要會買書就很好了！」
這位30年創作不輟的作家，倒是覺得自己並沒有好好照顧身體，所以勸勉讀者，健康和內心是要「維護」的（而不是鍛鍊）。一如家電或是衣服，都需要好好保養。他建議「閱讀」就是一種很好的保養工具。例如，沒有人讀一本小說時不會感受到豐富的情感── 即使發現不有趣，也會「感受」不開心嘛。
京極夏彥說，閱讀的好處，與電視或YouTube這種單方面輸出的娛樂不同，閱讀是一種需要自己思考和判斷，進而活躍大腦的行為。而且，一本書只要擁有了，就能反覆享受，很划算的！
「十二位現代總統中有四位脫穎而出，
現在先介紹兩位學者的研究。首先是上文的引文的作者弗雷德‧
見仁見智中的總統學作為領導學：以美國研究為主
美國歷任總統那五位最偉大？
摘自鍾漢清著 領導與學習:
1954年3月17日 胡適在台北演講《美國的民主政治》。說他親歷6次美國總統大選 (1912-54 共11次大選) ，…… 第6次便是艾森豪的當選。……1952的大選，
美國總統大選多此種君子之爭，如2000年的民主黨總統候選人高
到了1960年11月4日，胡適接受中廣公司訪問他的親歷7次美
Architect offers Eisenhower Memorial revisions that stress leadership over youth
The new proposal, unveiled at an Eisenhower Memorial Commission meeting, retains the metal tapestries surrounding an urban park framework, but offers changes to the memorial core that the architect hopes will give greater prominence to Eisenhower’s stature and accomplishments.
Frank Gehry talks about designing the Dwight D.
Eisenhower memorial. “I fell in love with the idea of trying to
represent him in this unlikely site,” Gehry said about the planned
memorial.
In a letter to the commissioners read by Meaghan Lloyd, Gehry’s chief of staff, Gehry indicated that he had considered the feedback and criticism generated by his initial proposal. “I love this type of collaboration,” he wrote. “It is a process that I think is vital to the success of any endeavor and one that was necessary to make sense of sometimes contradictory characterizations of President Eisenhower.” The changes help “tell the story of Eisenhower with more dignity and power,” he said in the letter.
The Eisenhower family criticized the original design as invoking images of Soviet mythmaking and Nazi-era barbarism. The family did not attend the Tuesday meeting but is expected to weigh in on the new design before the commission meets again, possibly within a week. At that meeting, the commission is expected to decide whether to send the plan forward to the National Capital Planning Commission.
Planners hope to break ground on the four-acre memorial this year. Projected to cost an estimated $110 million, the memorial would be bisected by Maryland Avenue SW, just south of the Mall and would be situated in front of the Education Department and across from the National Air and Space Museum — buildings that tie in with Eisenhower’s legacy.
The design features large, see-through metal tapestries bordering three sides of the monument, depicting outdoor scenes from Eisehnower’s boyhood home of Abilene, Kan. The original core featured a young Eisenhower sculpted to look out onto bas-relief forms representing his dual military and presidential careers.
Much of the criticism from the family, conservatives and architectural traditionalists focused on the tapestries and their portrayal of Eisenhower’s humble roots. Critics thought the emphasis on his rural boyhood came at the expense of his later accomplishments as World War II Supreme Allied Commander and, especially, president.
Some attacked Gehry’s designs as too modern and self-aggrandizing. In December, Eisenhower’s grandson, David Eisenhower, resigned from the commission. At a March congressional subcommittee meeting, Eisenhower’s granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower, critically compared Gehry’s design to Communist-era decorations that honored “Marx, Engels and Lenin.” The metal tapestries were likened to fences in Nazi death camps. She called for a total redesign.
Gehry’s supporters, including commission member Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), countered with a March letter from the Eisenhower Memorial Commission expressing its “unqualified support” for Gehry. The new and possibly final design features portrayals of Eisenhower with soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division before the invasion of Normandy and the 1966 Yousuf Karsh “Elder Statesman” photo of Eisenhower as 9-foot statues. Proposed inscriptions detail his military accomplishments and the “Peace and Prosperity” of his presidency.
After the Tuesday meeting, critics said the new design still did not address key conceptual and aesthetic concerns. Justin Shubow, president of National Civic Art Society, says the memorial “still portrays Eisenhower as an unrecognizable boy or young man, which is at its core.”
Milton Grenfell, vice chairman of the civic art society and a classical architecture advocate, said the new design remained overscale, “with huge iron curtains,” and called the inscribed stones perched atop one another “willful” and “anti-aesthetic,” giving a feeling of “something that’s not going to last.” He said he hoped Congress would have a chance to weigh in.
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They met in the offices of Sen. Daniel Inouye, in one of the ornate rooms of the old Capitol that are among the perks of office for the president pro tempore. Members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission sat around a heavy round table, while their staffers crowded in from the sides. A March fire blazed in the fireplace.
They were looking for a way forward. More than a decade after the commission had been formed to create a memorial to the 34th president of the United States and the man who led Allied troops to victory in Europe in World War II, the Eisenhower Memorial was suddenly in the news, attacked from all sides, including by the grandchildren of the man it was meant to honor.
Interactive: Experience the Eisenhower Memorial plans
The Eisenhower Memorial design: Gehry’s plan and what went wrong
They met in the offices of Sen. Daniel Inouye, in one of the ornate rooms of the old Capitol that are among the perks of office for the president pro tempore. Members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission sat around a heavy round table, while their staffers crowded in from the sides. A March fire blazed in the fireplace.
They were looking for a way forward. More than a decade after the commission had been formed to create a memorial to the 34th president of the United States and the man who led Allied troops to victory in Europe in World War II, the Eisenhower Memorial was suddenly in the news, attacked from all sides, including by the grandchildren of the man it was meant to honor.
Why Presidents Fail provides an innovative, comprehensive assessment of how political parties influence presidential survival and contributes fresh ideas to the debates on the stability of presidential governments.
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民主在美國－人類的經典52
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民主在美國－人類的經典52
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https://www.sanmin.com.tw › index
書名：民主在美國－人類的經典52，ISBN：9789867174093，出版社：左岸文化，作者：ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE，譯者：秦修明譯，頁數：，出版日期：2005/10/01.
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