[00:09.40]UNIT4
[00:12.68]The Man and His Castle (Ⅱ)
[00:15.86]This influential media giant
[00:19.47]was not without his faults.
[00:22.64]His prejudices were common knowledge.
[00:25.81]His career was blemished
[00:28.00] by his offensive remarks about Spaniards,
[00:30.63] Japanese, Filipinos, and Russians.
[00:33.69]He printed lies, forged documents,
[00:38.28]falsified stories of violence,
[00:41.57]wrote provocative editorials, and
[00:45.07]published sensational cartoons and
[00:47.37]photographs to support his opinions.
[00:50.76]William hated minorities.
[00:54.70]He took advantage of every opportunity
[00:57.10]to heighten racial tensions.
[00:59.84]His real motive for his hatred
[01:02.14]of Mexicans may have been
[01:04.22]the loss of 800 000 acres
[01:06.62]of prime timberland to
[01:08.48]the Mexican outlaw, Pancho Villa.
[01:11.54] His papers described them
[01:14.50]as marijuanasmoking, jobstealing,
[01:17.56]lazy, wicked, and violent degenerates.
[01:22.38] Some suggest he saw
[01:24.57] the Mexicans as a threat to his empire.
[01:27.95]During this period, William met
[01:31.57]and fell in love with
[01:33.53]a young actress, Marion Davies.
[01:35.28] Millicent, his wife and
[01:38.90]the mother of his five sons,
[01:40.86]including a set of twins,
[01:43.27] refused to dissolve the marriage,
[01:46.01] which obliged William to
[01:47.65]“live in sin” with the woman
[01:50.16]whom the tour guides refer to as
[01:52.24] his “friend” or “companion”. |