park是什么意思2005年英语专业四级阅读第3篇

2021年1月19日发(作者：抱歉的英文)
2005
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Predicting the future is always risky. But it’s probably safe to say that at least a few historians
will one day speak of the 20th century as America’s “Disney

era”. Today, it’s certainly difficult to
think of any other single thing that represents modern America as powerfully as the company that
created
Mickey
Mouse.
Globally,
brands
like
Coca-Cola
and
McDonalds
may
be
more
widely-known, but neither encapsulates 20th- century America in quite the same way as Disney.
The reasons for Disney’s succ
ess are varied and numerous, but ultimately the credit belongs to
one person
—
the man who created the cartoon and built the company from nothing, Walt Disney.
Ironically, he could not draw particularly well. But he was a genius in plenty of other respects. In
business, his greatest skills were his insight and his management ability. After setting himself up
in
Hollywood,
he
single-handedly
pioneered
the
concepts
of
branding
and
merchandising
—

something his company still does brilliantly today.
But
what
really
distinguished
Disney
was
his
ability
to
identify
with
his
audiences.
Disney
always made sure his films championed the
“little

guy”,
and made him feel proud to be American.
This
he
achieved
by
creating
characters
that
reflected
the
hopes
and
fears
of
ordinary
people.
Some celebrated American achievements
—

Disney’s very first cartoon Plane Crazy, featuring a
silent Mickey Mouse, was inspired by Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic. Others, like
the There Little Pigs and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, showed how, through hard work
and
helping
one’s
fellow
man,
or
Americans
could
survive
social
and
economic
crises
like
the
Great Depression.
Disney’s other great virtue was the fact that his company —
unlike other big corporations
—

had a human face. His Hollywood studio
—
the public heard
—
operated just like a democracy,
where everyone was on first-name terms and had a say in how things should be run. He was also
regarded as a great patriot because not only did his cartoons celebrate America, but, during World
War II, studios made training films for American soldiers.
The reality, of course, was less idyllic. As the public would later learn, Disney’s patriotism had
an unpleasant side. After a strike by cartoonists in 1941, he became convinced that Hollywood had
been infiltrated by Communists. He agreed to work for the FBI as a mole, identifying and spying
on colleagues whom he suspected were subversives.

But, apart from his affiliations with the FBI, Disney was more or less the genuine article. A new
book,
The
Magic
Kingdom;
Walt
Disney
and
the
American
Way
of
Life,
by
Steven
Watts,
confirms that he was very definitely on the side of ordinary Americans
—
in the 30s and 40s he
voted for Franklin Roosevelt, believing he was a champion of the workers. Also, Disney was not
an
apologist
for
the
FBI,
as
some
have
suggested.
In
fact,
he
was
always
suspicious
of
large,
bureaucratic organizations, as is evidenced in films like That Darned Cat, in which he portrayed
FBI agents as bungling incompetents.
By
the
time
he
died
in
1966,
Walt
Disney
was
an
icon
like
Thomas
Edison
and
the
Wright
Brothers. To business people and filmmakers, he was a role model; to the public at large, he was
“Uncle

Walt”—
the man who had entertained them all their lives, the man who represented them
all their lives, the man who represented all that was good about America.

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Why do you listen to music? If you should put this question to a number of people, you might
receive answers like these:
“
I like the beat of music,
”

“
I look for attractive tunefulness,
”

“
I am