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家园 也来一张自己拍的三一和华尔街

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一段很有意思的话:

按今天的标准来看,华尔街的风貌素朴宁静:三一大教堂是最高的建筑,鹅卵石铺就的街道上立着的街灯甚至比许多建筑物都高。六层的Drexel大楼即可傲视毗邻的建筑。然而在Jay Cooke的败落之后(1873年的黑色星期四),华尔街被广泛视为罪恶之街,其腐蚀了一个新生的纯洁国度的道德和方式。绝非最后一次,美国以清教徒式的愤怒和一种清白被玷污了的感觉向华尔街发起攻击。Thomas Nast在一副漫画中这样描绘:成群被屠戮的动物横尸于三一大教堂之前,而大教堂自己亦在哭泣,在它的尖顶上镌刻着“道德,我曾这样告诉你!”----华尔街已经有了盛宴结束即被弃绝的方式。

By today's standards, Wall Street looked almost pastoral: Trinity Church was the tallest structure, and street lamps on the cobblestone streets stood higher than many buildings. The six-story Drexel Building soared above its neighbors. Yet after Jay Cooke's failure, it was popularly seen as the street of sin, a place responsible for corrupting the manners and morals of a pristine frontier nation. Not for the last time, America turned against Wall Street with puritanical outrage and a sense of offended innocence. Thomas Nast's cartoons in Harper's Weekly showed heaps of slaughtered animals in front of Trinity Church, the church itself scowling, with the words MORAL, I TOLD YOU SO emblazoned on its steeple. Wall Street already had a way of being renounced once the party was over.

----The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, by Ron Chernow, P37.

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