GRE写作成为横在中国学生的理想和现实之间的一大障碍，因此，如何攻克写作这道屏障，成为摆在我们面前的首要任务。
Turning to the arts, mavericks such as Dali, Picasso and Warhol, who departed from
established rules of composition, ultimately emerge as the leading artists. And our most
influential popular musicians are the ones who are flagrantly "different." Consider, for example,
jazz pioneers Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis, who broke all the harmonic rules, or folk
musician-poet Bob Dylan, who established a new standard for lyricism. Were all these leading
voices driven simply by a desire to be different? Perhaps; but my intuition is that creative urges
are born not of ego but rather of some intensely personal commitment to an aesthetic ideal.
As for the physical sciences, innovation and progress can only result from challenging
conventional theories--that is, the status quo. Newton and Einstein, for example, both refused
to blindly accept what were perceived at their time as certain rules of physics. As a result, both
men redefined those rules. Yet it would be patently absurd to assert that these two scientists
were driven by a mere desire to conjure up "different" theories than those of their
contemporaries or predecessors. Surely it was a conviction that their theories were better that
drove these geniuses to their places in history.
To sum up, when one examines history's leading voices it does appear that they typically
bring to the world something radically different than the status quo. Yet in most cases this sort
of iconoclasm is a byproduct of personal conviction, not iconoclasm for its own sake.
Issue 75
"It is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is
not a useful virtue for a politician."
Is complete honesty a useful virtue in politics? The speaker contends that it is not, for the
reason that political leaders must sometimes lie to be effective. In order to evaluate this
contention it is necessary to examine the nature of politics, and to distinguish between
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short-term and long-term effectiveness.
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