1、 Topic C A fashion magazine selected the following people as the most stylish geniuses of all time.Study these pictures,captions and the background information.Select one of them as your favorite and give reasons for your choice.I like _ best.The reasons:_1.J.Robert Oppenheimer(19041967)A leading US
2、 researcher in the atomic bomb project during the Second World War.“I am becoming dapper.”The pipe and boxy suit16 are perfect for taking tea or designing weapons of mass destruction.2.Sigmund Freud(18561939)Austrian neuropsychologist,founder of psychoanalysis,and one of the major intellectual figur
3、es of the 20th century.The height of fin de sicle chic17.The neatly trimmed beard,the fedora18,the round glasses,the suit.3.Samuel Beckett(19061989)Irish playwright,1969 Nobel Prize Laureate for literature.He was best known for his play Waiting for Godot(1952).Marked by minimal plot,the play typifie
4、s the theater of the absurd.A man of crisp suits and turtlenecks.But if hed put on his glasses,hed have seen things with more ease.4.Johannes Kepler(15711630)German astronomer.He was credited with Keplers laws of planetary motion and explanations of what happens to light in eyes,eyeglasses and teles
5、copes.The neck ruffles were to the 16th century Austria as the monochrome tie was to the early 21st century America.The ladies loved them.5.Enrico Fermi(19011954)Italian-US physicist.He was awarded a 1938 Nobel Prize.After receiving the prize in Sweden,he never returned to fascist Italy,but instead
6、moved directly to the US where he became an important figure in the development of the nuclear bomb.Element 100,fermium,was named in his honor.As bold with wardrobe as he was with his equations.Like his beta-ray emission theory,this pom-pom ensemble has stood the test of time.Background Information
7、of the Five Geniuses 191.J.Robert Oppenheimer(19041967):US theoretical physicist.He was born in New York City,graduated from Harvard University,did research at Cambridge University and earned a doctorate from Gottingen University in Germany.He returned to the US to teach and trained a generation of
8、American physicists.In World War II he was named director of the Armys atomic-bomb project,later known as the Manhattan Project,and set up the laboratory in Los Alamos,New Mexico,that remains a principal weapons-research laboratory.He directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton between 19
9、471966.He strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb,and in 1953 he was suspended from secret nuclear researchAs an alleged communist and security risk;the case became a worldwide cause clbre20.In 1963 he was reinstated and awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.2.Sigmund Freud(18561939):Austrian
10、 neuropsychologist,founder of psychoanalysis,and one of the major intellectual figures of the 20th century.Trained in Vienna as a neurologist,Freud went to Paris in 1885 to study with J.-M.Charcot,whose work on hysteria led Freud to conclude that mental disorders might be caused purely by psychologi
11、cal rather than organic factors.Returning to Vienna(1886),Freud collaborated with the physician Josef Breuer(18421925)in further studies on hysteria,resulting in the development of some key psychoanalytic concepts and techniques,includingfree association,the unconscious,resistance(later defense mech
12、anisms),and neurosis.In 1899 he published The Interpretation of Dreams,in which he analyzed the complex symbolic processes underlying dream formation:he proposed that dreams are the disguised expression of unconscious wishes.In his controversial Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality(1905)he deline
13、ated the complicated stages of psychosexual development(oral,anal,and phallic)and the formation of the Oedipus complex.During World War I,he wrote papers that clarified his understanding of the relations between the unconscious and conscious portions of the mind and the workings of the id,ego,and su
14、perego.Freud eventually applied his psychoanalytic insights to such diverse phenomena as jokes and slips of the tongue,ethnographic data,religion and mythology,and modern civilization.Works of note include Totem and Taboo(1913),Beyond the Pleasure Principle(1920),The Future of an Illusion(1927),and
15、Civilization and Its Discontents(1930).Freud fl ed to England when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938;he died shortly thereafter.Despite the relentless and often compelling challenges mounted against virtually all of his ideas,both in his lifetime and after,Freud has remained one of the most influent
16、ial figures in contemporary thought.3.Samuel Beckett(19061989):Irish playwright.After studying in Ireland and traveling,he settled in Paris in 1937.During World War II he supported himself as a farm-worker and joined the underground resistance.In the postwar years he wrote,in French,the narrative tr
17、ilogy Molloy(1951),Malone Dies(1951),and TheUnnamable(1953).His play Waiting for Godot(1952)was an immediate success in Paris and gained worldwide acclaim when he translated it into English.Marked by minimal plot and action,it typifies the theater of the absurd.His later plays,alsoabstract works wit
18、h minimal sets that deal with the mystery and despair of human existence in a comic spirit,include Endgame(1957),Kapps Last Tape(1958),and Happy Days(1961).In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize.4.Johannes Kepler(15711630):German astronomer.Born into a poor family,he received a scholarship to the Un
19、iversity of Tubingen.He received an MA in 1594,after which he became a mathematics teacher in Austria.Kepler was the first to explain accurately how the eye sees,how eyeglasses improve vision,and what happens to light in a telescope.In 1609 he published his finding that the orbit of Mars was an elli
20、pse and not the perfect circle hitherto presumed to be the orbit of all celestial bodies.This fact became the basis of the first of Keplers laws of planetary motion.He also determined that planets move faster as they near the sun,and in 1619 he showed that a simple mathematical formula related to th
21、e planets orbital periods to their distance from the sun.5.Enrico Fermi (19011954):Italian-US physicist.As a professor at the University of Rome,he discovered neutron-induced radioactivity,for which he was awarded a 1938 Nobel Prize.After receiving the award in Sweden,he never returned to fascist It
22、aly butinstead moved directly to the US,where he joined the faculty ofof Columbia University and soon became one of the chief architects of practical nuclear physics.A member of the Manhattan Project,he was an important figure in the development of the atomic bomb;in 1942 he directed the first contr
23、olled nuclear chain reaction.He received the Congressional Medal of Merit in 1946.In 1954 he became the first recipient of the US Department of Energys Enrico Fermi Award.Element number 100,fermium,was named in his honor.1.What is your impression of Oppenheimers appearance?Would you think of him as
24、a first class scientist of the atomic bomb?2.Are the round glasses very important for Freud to look like a whole person?3.What is unique in Becketts dress?4.Do you think that Kepler would be a lady killer in that dress?And why?5.What does the writer really mean by“pom-pom ensemble has stood the test
25、 of time”?Study the descriptions and the background information again about the five most stylish geniuses in history.Find the expressions in them that can capture their characteristics.Give reasons for your choices.1.J.Robert Oppenheimer:_2.Sigmund Freud:_3.Samuel Beckett:_4.Johannes Kepler:_5.Enri
26、co Fermi:_1.J.Robert Oppenheimer:His pipe and boxy suit reminds us of the gun and the box used to hold weapons.The reason:He was a leading US researcher on the atomic bomb project.The pipe and boxy suit are perfect for taking tea or designing the weapons of mass destruction.2.Sigmund Freud:fin de si
27、cle chic,which suggests that he was an important figure of the 19th century.The reason:He was a neurophysiologist of the late 19th and early 20th century.But his dress,chic and neatly trimmed beard,a fedora,round glasses and a well-tailored suit,make him look more like an important figure of the 19t
28、h century,a fin de sicle.3.Samuel Beckett:his crisp suits,and the turtlenecks;If hed put on his glasses,he would have seen things with more ease.But he may not be able to write the famous play Waiting for Godot.The reason:He is best known for the play which is marked by the minimal plot.The play typ
29、ifies the theater of the absurd.His dress is unique,and his glasses are even stranger;they reflect the absurdity of his style and his play too.4.Johannes Kepler:The neck ruffles were to the 16th century Austria as the monochrome tie was to the early 21st century America.They are both very attractive
30、 apparel.The reason:Kepler was an astronomer,but he was also a very fashionable man in his time.5.Enrico Fermi:As bold with wardrobe,he was equally bold in science.His pom-pom ensemble and his discoveries in nuclear science have both stood the test of time.The reason:He is outstanding in both dress and scientific achievements.
