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| How to Live Beautifully 如何永葆青春 | |||||
作者:LRC中国 文章来源:LRC中国 点击数: 更新时间:2006-11-25 ![]() |
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur, I learned, often quoted Ullman's "Youth" essay and kept a framed copy over his desk throughout the Pacific campaign. It's believed that the Japanese picked up the work from his Tokyo headquarters. Unlikely as it may sound, this essay, written more than 70 years ago, is the underpinning of much Japanese productivity and the basis of many businessmen's life philosophies. Many carry creased copies in their wallets. "Anyone worth his salt in Japanese business knows and uses this essay," says one longtime Japan observer, "It is our Popeye's spinach," said Tatsuro Ishida, who was deputy chairman of Fujisankei Communications Group. "It touches me at the core of my heart," says Kokichi Hagiwara, the 67-year-old chairman of Japanese/American-owned National Steel in Pittsburgh. "This kind of enthusiasm is indispensable, We must have the spirit of youth to make change." Some Japanese leaders see the essay as a bridge between the two cultures, If Westerners can understand Japanese reverence for it, maybe they can better understand the Japanese businessman's quest for spiritual sustenance in the midst of material abundance. When one of Ullman's grandsons, Jonas Rosenfield, Jr., was having dinner in Japan a few years ago, "Youth" came up in conversation, Rosenfield told his dinner companion, a Japanese business leader, that the author was his grandfather. The news was staggering. "'You are the grandson of Samuel Ullman?' he kept repeating," says Rosenfield, head of the American Film Marketing Association. "He couldn't get over it." Then the executive pulled a copy of "Youth" from his pocket and told Rosenfield, "I carry it with me always." Three years ago, several hundred top businessmen and government leaders gathered in Tokyo and Osaka to celebrate their admiration of Ullman's essay. Testimonials abounded, including one from Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the Panasonic Company, who said "Youth" has been his motto for 20 years. Someone asked, "Why don't Americans love the essay as much as we do? It sends a message about how to live beautifully to men and women, old and young alike." Samuel Ullman was born in 1840 in Germany and came to American as a boy. He fought in the U.S, Civil War and settled in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a hardware merchant with a penchant for public service that continues 67 years after his death, In the last few years more than $36,000 from Japanese royalties on a book and a cassette reading of his work has gone to a University of Alabama at Birmingham scholarship fund, Not bad for a man who started writing in his 70s.
如 何 永 葆 青 春 数月前,笔者在敝报专栏转载了一篇论青春的短文,对作者塞缪尔.厄尔曼其人我并无所知。可不久就接到他的曾孙理查德.厄尔曼.罗森菲尔德——一位心理学家的电话,说他对该文能在各地尤其是日本广为传诵极感兴趣。 塞缪尔.厄尔曼1840年生于德国,童年时移居美国。参加过南北战争,后来定居于拉巴马州的伯明翰市。他是一位五金制品商,热心公益67年如一日。在其生前的最后几年,他曾日本得到一本书及其作品的录音盒带稿酬36,000美元,并全部捐赠给伯明翰市的一所亚拉巴马州立大学作为奖学基金。这对一个在古稀之年才开始写作的人来说是相当了不起的。 |
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