亚历山大·米切尔
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内容引用Alexander Mitchell
米切尔大厦的经典喷泉，1880年
亚历山大·米切尔(Alexander Mitchell)的豪宅及其经典喷泉的照片，1880年，以及这个地方今天的样子。
2014年11月4日by杰夫•特纳
罗纳德•里根(Ronald Reagan)
我记得罗纳德·里根被认为太过极右翼而不能成为总统。事实上，他确实成为了总统，这表明美国自那以后发生了多大的变化，而这种变化在一定程度上是由里根本人促成的。虽然我从来没有投票给他，直到今天我都对他一生中受到的吹捧感到惊讶，但我尊重他的谦逊和幽默。我认为他的妻子很可怕，但我钦佩她对嫁给她的男人一生的奉献。南希·里根让人们很容易忘记罗纳德·里根是第一位离婚的总统。我记得去参加吉米·卡特的就职典礼，一张5美元的票就能进入“人民”的就职舞会。到里根上任时，绝对没有举办“人民”舞会的企图，只有几个超级富豪的派对。我在华盛顿参加了里根的第二次就职典礼，当时所有的公共活动——比如游行——都因为个位数的天气而取消了。昂贵的室内活动如期举行。尽管如此，里根对普通民众仍有不可否认的吸引力。 I remember the Reagan years for the now-forgotten Savings and Loan scandals. (Forgotten now that the common people have paid off the debts.) I remember the Reagan years for the government’s failure to act against AIDS, even when, as Hollywoodites, the Reagan’s social life was swarming with gays. I remember the Reagan years for the introduction of evangelical Christianity as an active partner in the government, and this from a guy who rarely went to church. I remember the Reagan years for Ollie North. I also remember that no matter what, people loved Ronald Reagan. Mostly, though, I remember the Reagan presidency as the first eight years of the Bush administrations. How I miss the Reagan years. Montana Until last week I had only vague memories of Montana, which I had first and only seen as a teenager on a family motor trip. While others rhapsodized of the Purple Mountains’ Majesty, I kept my eyes to the manmade world before me and found it deficient. The buildings seemed haphazardly-constructed and landscaping was an unknown art. The bleached bones scattered across the plain could well have been those of architects. That’s the way I remembered it, and Montana still has a patched-together look. The residents in this sparsely-populated state seem as oblivious to urban planning as they are to the coastal tides. That’s the way they want it in Montana, and no outsider is going to tell them any different. Now get off my land! In the urban center of Billings, the state’s largest city, you get the feeling of being in a community on the rebound. The city is laid out on a grid along the railroad tracks that gave the place its raison d’etre. The station was built before the town lots were sold, and the city was named after the president of the railroad, just as Mitchell South Dakota was named after our own […]
2004年6月8日by迈克尔·霍恩
