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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Stephen Miller, The Suzuki Method He Imported Keyed a Music Revolution. Wall
Street Journal, Jan 14, 2011 (Remembrances: John Kendall 1917-2011).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274
8704637704576082283677493472.html
("Key to the Suzuki method was the insight that children can learn music as
they do language—by listening and trying to repeat what they hear, with
lots of parental encouragement")
Note:
(a) Shinichi SUZUKI 鈴木 鎮一
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Suzuki_(violinist)
(b) Antonio Vivaldi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
(1678-1741; nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"); an Italian Baroque
composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist)
(c) Edwardsville, Illinois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardsville,_Illinois
(named in honor of Ninian Edwards, then Governor of the Illinois Territory)
(d) I have not heard og Mr Suzuki. That is why I select this obituary. You
guys might have known of him.
Elizabeth Chang, Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," on Chinese-
American family culture. Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010702516.html
(book review on Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Penguin Press,
February 2011)
My comment:
(a) The cover of the book says, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother[.] This is
a a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was SUPPOSED to
be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western
ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting tsate
of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old."
(b) Chua is 蔡 in Taiwanese/South Fujian pronunciation.
Amy Chua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Chua
(蔡美兒; born 1962 in Champaign, Illinois; is the John M. Duff, Jr.
Professor of Law at Yale Law School; has also written two books, Day of
Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall (2007)
AND the New York Times bestseller, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market
Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2003))
(c) The reviewer Elizabeth Chang writes, "As a hopelessly Western mother
married into a Chinese family living in an area that generates immigrant
prodigies as reliably as clouds produce rain, I was eager to observe the
comeuppance of a parent who thought she had all the answers."
So she is an American (whatever the race) who married a Chinese man named
Chang and changed her last name.
The review later says, "For a mother whose half-Chinese children played
outside while the kids of stricter immigrant neighbors could be heard
laboring over the violin and piano." That was Chang, not Chua (although I
did not know who Chua is married to, until later in the review).
Note: BJ's Wholesale Club
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJ%27s_Wholesale_Club
(headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts; The [BJ] company was started by
Zayre, a discount department store chain, in 1984)
has Laura Sen as CEO.
(i) Laura Sen, A Happy Return. New York Times, Apr. 25, 2009 (in the Sunday
column The Boss).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/jobs/26boss.html
("My mother and father met when they worked in the Massachusetts highway
division. She was a secretary, and he was a highway engineer. They married
when she was 23 and he was 40. It was unusual for a white Irish girl from a
small town to be married to a Chinese man")
gofer (n; alteration of go for; First Known Use: 1967): "an employee whose
duties include running errands : LACKEY"
Sen is a Bengali Hindu surname in India (Amartya Sen earned the 1988 Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen
I did not know it could be a Chinese surname also, like 森 (which is not
found in Taiwan).
(ii) I have great respect for Ms. Sen. She is unpretentious.
Frank Quaratiello, BJ’s CEO discusses Pine Street Inn work; Dedicated to
helping the homeless. Boston Herald, July 30, 2010.
http://www.bostonherald.com/business
/general/view.bg?articleid=1271090
(d) The review uses teh word "imagine!" because Jewish parents are known to
hover around their children.
(e) Lulu is a pet form of Louise, originally a reduplicated nursery form.
(f) Knossos is a ruin in island of Crete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos
The letter k is silent.
(g) Chang, the reviewer, comments Chua is "compulsively honest." I agree.
(h) stripe (n): "a distinct variety or sort : type
political stripe>"
Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.
The word "stripe" used here is menat to be a pun--Chua is tiger mother.
synonym in this context can be (the same) persuation. |
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