The Age of Innocence

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

七十年代初的一个一月夜晚，克里斯汀·尼尔森正在纽约音乐学院演唱《浮士德》。

It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

这位伟大的马车行老板最精妙的直觉之一，便是发现美国人想从娱乐中抽身的速度，甚至比赶往娱乐的速度还要快。