That Thing of Jesus-耶稣那些事儿（70元/千字）

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  SESSION ONE: 第一节： 17 FEBRUARY, 1998 1998年2月17日 [Tape I, Side One] 【母带第一卷，A面】 SMITH:  Okay. Could you say something, so I can test the mike? （采访者）史密斯： 好了。或许您可以先说几句开场白，让我测试一下麦克风？ STEINBERG: Let me get my cigarettes. And let me tell you how I feel about speaking off the cuff. When I began to lecture in public, at the Metropolitan Museum, in the late fifties, I was still a graduate student. I thought there was some virtue in coming across as spontaneous, so I just wrote down a few key words to give me a sense of sequence, but I was under terrible tension. I feared that I might forget something important, words would not come to me, I would become repetitious and stumble. Giving lectures was a matter of intense anxiety. As I became more experienced at public lecturing over the decades, I relied less and less on improvisation. I was rather heartened to read in an interview with Merce Cunningham, the choreographer, that he never allowed his dancers to improvise on stage, because...