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arious angles。Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly. Summer homes, European travel, BMWs—the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago. What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams, as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar. Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home。s behalf. If the tradition of ambition is to have vitality, it must be widely shared。 海天教育If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition—wealth, distinction, control over one39??佳杏⒄Z真題閱讀理解試題及名師解析(五)20091105 s destiny—must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambition39。 and it especially must be highly regarded by people who are themselves admired, the educated not least among them. In an odd way, however, it is the educated who have claimed to have given up on ambition as an ideal. What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition—if not always their own then that of their parents and grandparents. There is a heavy note of hypocrisy in this, a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped―with the educated themselves riding on them。 the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in threestar restaurants。 its publ