《经济学家》讣告集
The Economist Book of Obituaries.
Edited by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe.
Bloomberg Press; 409 pages; $29.95. Profile Books; £20
This selection of more than 200 obituaries published in The Economist since 1995 includes those of Arthur Miller, J.K. Galbraith, Estée Lauder, Harry Oppenheimer and Alex the African Grey, science's best-known parrot. Chosen by our obituaries editor and her predecessor.
旁观者的评论
Not that the Economist confines itself to the great and the good, at least as generally understood. It spreads its net to include film stars, clowns, cartoonists, third-world dictators, gardeners, poets, astronauts, explorers, cosmeticians, two rather off-beat dukes, the inventor of frozen non-dairy topping, at least one ‘extreme microbiologist’, a ‘possible victim of alien abduction’, and a (admittedly very remarkable) parrot. Barbara Cartland was perhaps a predictable target for its attentions, as was that grande horizontale Pamela Harriman, whose life is described as ‘an astonishing tale of sex, money and, far sweeter-smelling than both of these coarse commodities — power’; but a little more surprising is the inclusion of a rather less grande horizontale — one Anna Nicole Smith, described here as ‘a peculiarly modern celebrity’ who apparently owed her fame and fortune to her ‘celebrated American breasts’. I never knew this.
Edited by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe.
Bloomberg Press; 409 pages; $29.95. Profile Books; £20
This selection of more than 200 obituaries published in The Economist since 1995 includes those of Arthur Miller, J.K. Galbraith, Estée Lauder, Harry Oppenheimer and Alex the African Grey, science's best-known parrot. Chosen by our obituaries editor and her predecessor.
旁观者的评论
Not that the Economist confines itself to the great and the good, at least as generally understood. It spreads its net to include film stars, clowns, cartoonists, third-world dictators, gardeners, poets, astronauts, explorers, cosmeticians, two rather off-beat dukes, the inventor of frozen non-dairy topping, at least one ‘extreme microbiologist’, a ‘possible victim of alien abduction’, and a (admittedly very remarkable) parrot. Barbara Cartland was perhaps a predictable target for its attentions, as was that grande horizontale Pamela Harriman, whose life is described as ‘an astonishing tale of sex, money and, far sweeter-smelling than both of these coarse commodities — power’; but a little more surprising is the inclusion of a rather less grande horizontale — one Anna Nicole Smith, described here as ‘a peculiarly modern celebrity’ who apparently owed her fame and fortune to her ‘celebrated American breasts’. I never knew this.
