AN ERA FOR NEW PIONEERS
Publié le 07/02/2012
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I am not a partisan of those who believe that in this country (the U.S.A.), we have passed the zenith of our wealth and wellbeing. The possibilities of the future are boundless. Until now we have destroyed as much as we have constructed and we are beginning at last to pay for that destruction in terms of reduced living standards and health and intelligence. There is a tremendous job ahead of reconstruction and restoration, a job quite as big and infinitely more complicated than the job of subduing the wilderness by the first settlers. What we need is a new courage and a new race of pioneers, as sturdy as the original pioneers, but wiser than they-a race of pioneers concerned with the physical, economie and social....
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1) This text was written in 1943.
How far is it "modem" in
its preoccupations?
2) America could be "a physical, economie, and social para
dise".
From what you know of America, has it become such
a paradise? What
is y our idea of such a paradise?
3) Can you imagine why the American minorities have become
"selfish"?
4) Is it only an American attitude to criticize "the men who sit
in libraries working
out theories" ?
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Translate into French:
"These new pioneers will have to be
men ...
wither
and pass away ...
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1) This text was written in 1943.
How far is it modern in its
preoccupations?
In America, 1943 was a year of intense industrialization
because
of the war.
And those efforts were made hastily,
with no concem whatsoever for the environment.
And at
that time, Louis Bromfield was already aware
of the aecolo
gical problem, which was only then pondered about in the
1960s.
His proposai to safeguard the environment thus
strikes us as a very modem idea.
Instead
of vanquishing
Nature, men should try to preserve it.
Besides, he appeals to the pioneer spirit of the American
people.
Just like Kennedy in his
"inaugural address" of
1960, he thinks that there is still a frontier to be overcome.
And here this frontier represents better conditions of life for
ali,
and a moral politiCal environment.
As he was running
for president in the
1976 election, Jimmy Carter used this
last point as a decisive argument in his campaign.
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