AMERICAN MOSAIC - Jazz conference/Susan B. Anthony/the Super

AMERICAN MOSAIC¹ -February 1, 2002: Jazz conference/Susan B. Anthony/the Super Bowl

Broadcast:

HOST:

Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC
—
VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.

(THEME)

This is Doug Johnson. On our program today we:

play some jazz music ...

answer a question about the women’s rights leader Susan B. Anthony ...

and report about the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl

HOST:

Sunday, February third is not a holiday in the United States, but it may seem like one
to many Americans. They will be attending parties to watch the Super Bowl Game.
The Superbowl is the championship game of American professional football. Bob
Doughty² explains.

ANNCR:

American professional football involves thirty-one teams in the National Football
League, or NFL. The first NFL was formed in Nineteen-Twenty, when representatives of four professional teams
met in Canton, Ohio. The group first called it the American Professional Football Association, but changed the
name two years later.

In Nineteen-Sixty, businessman Lamar Hunt started the American Football League, or AFL. The two leagues
competed with each other to get college players. In Nineteen-Sixty-Five, established NFL players began
negotiating³ to play for the competing league. So officials of the two leagues decided⁴ to work together. This
agreement immediately established a championship game between them. It was officially called the AFL-NFL
World Championship Game, but became known as the Super Bowl.

The first Super Bowl was played in Nineteen-Sixty-Seven in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers
defeated the Kansas City Chiefs. It was not a very exciting game. Many of the seats in the sports center were
empty. That changed with the Super Bowl played two years later. Experts say the public finally accepted the new
league when the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts.

After that game, officials of the two leagues decided to create a new National Football League. They divided the
teams into two competing conferences, the American Conference, or AFC, and the National Conference, NFC.
Each year, the conference champions play in the Super Bowl.

Today, the Super Bowl is a major sporting event. Thousands of people will be watching the game Sunday at the
Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Millions of people around the world will be watching Super Bowl Thirty-
Six on television. They will be watching to see if the AFC New England Patriots⁶ or the NFC Saint⁷ Louis Rams⁸
become the champions of American football.

Susan B. Anthony


HOST:

Our VOA listener question this week comes from Ethiopia. Theodros Solomon asks
about Susan B. Anthony.

Susan Brownell Anthony led the struggle for women’s rights in the United States.
She was born in Eighteen-Twenty in the state of Massachusetts. Her family moved
to New York State when she was seven. She began teaching school when she was
fifteen, and continued until she was thirty years old.

Susan B. Anthony opposed drinking alcohol. She also urged an immediate⁵ end to

slavery. She worked for both these causes. But she is most famous for her work for
women’s rights. This began in Eighteen Fifty-One when she met reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They first
worked to improve women’s rights in New York State.

Their first important success came in Eighteen-Sixty when New York approved a Married Woman’s Law. For
the first time in New York, a married woman could own property. And she had a right to the money she was paid
for work she did. The campaign for women’s rights spread to other states. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton realized that women would not gain their rights until they had the right to vote in elections. Their
campaign was called the women’s suffrage⁹ movement. Suffrage means the right to vote.

As part of the campaign, Susan B. Anthony voted in the presidential election of Eighteen-Seventy-Two in
Rochester, New York. She was arrested and tried for voting illegally. She was found guilty and ordered to pay
one-hundred dollars as punishment. She refused to pay, but no further action was taken against her.

Miss Anthony led efforts to gain voting rights for women through a new amendment¹⁰ to the United States
Constitution. She traveled across the country to work for such an amendment until she was seventy-five years
old. She knew the victory would come. But she also knew it would not come while she was alive.

Susan B. Anthony died in Nineteen-Oh -Six. She was eighty-six years old. Thirteen years later, Congress
approved the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. It states that the right to vote shall not be denied
because of a person’s sex. It was called the Anthony amendment, to honor Susan B. Anthony.

Many years later, the United States honored her again when it put her picture on a newly created dollar coin. She
was the first woman to be pictured on American money.

Jazz Conference

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HOST:

Last month, some of the biggest names in jazz attended the Twenty-Ninth yearly meeting of the International
Association of Jazz Educators. Musicians such as Dave Brubeck, Quincy Jones and Nancy Wilson attended the
conference in Long Beach, California. Steve Ember tells us more.

ANNCR:

The conference brings together jazz educators, musicians, students and industry
representatives. They celebrate the joys of music and the effect of jazz on cultural
life. More than seven-thousand people from thirty -five countries attended the
conference this year.

There is always something musical going on during the conference. There are lively
discussion groups, concerts, training programs and other events. But the most
exciting part of the conference is the energy created during the jam sessions. That is
when the musicians play together without preparation.

The music of jazz great Duke Ellington is heard throughout the conference. Here is Ellington and his orchestra¹¹
playing “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be.
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There were many special performances at the jazz educators conference including a jazz presentation of a
religious story. And a group of talented young women, called “Sisters in Jazz”, showed that women can play
jazz too.

Musician and composer Dave Brubeck was one of several people who were honored during the conference. He
was recognized as a major influence in jazz and a powerful supporter of jazz education. We leave you with one of
Dave Brubeck ’s biggest hits, “Take Five.
”

((CUT THREE: “TAKE FIVE”))

HOST:

This is Doug Johnson . I hope you enjoyed our program today. And I hope you will join us again next week for
AMERICAN MOSAIC—VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.

This AMERICAN MOSAIC program was written by Cynthia Kirk and Nancy Steinbach. Our studio engineer
was Tom Verba. And our producer was Paul Thompson.

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1 mosaic   

n./adj.镶嵌细工的，镶嵌工艺品的，嵌花式的

参考例句：

• The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
• The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。

2 doughty   

adj.勇猛的，坚强的

参考例句：

• Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质：脾气倔强，性格刚强。
• The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。

3 negotiating   

n. 谈判 动词negotiate的现在分词

参考例句：

• They were coerced into negotiating a settlement. 他们被迫通过谈判解决。
• We want to get all the parties back to the negotiating table. 我们想把有关各方拉回到谈判桌上来。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

6 patriots   

爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
• These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

7 saint   

n.圣徒；基督教徒；vt.成为圣徒，把...视为圣徒

参考例句：

• He was made a saint.他被封为圣人。
• The saint had a lowly heart.圣人有谦诚之心。

8 rams   

n.公羊( ram的名词复数 )；(R-)白羊（星）座；夯；攻城槌v.夯实（土等）( ram的第三人称单数 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输

参考例句：

• A couple of rams are butting at each other. 两只羊正在用角互相抵触。 来自辞典例句
• More than anything the rams helped to break what should have been on interminable marriage. 那些牡羊比任何东西都更严重地加速了他们那本该天长地久的婚姻的破裂。 来自辞典例句

9 suffrage   

n.投票，选举权，参政权

参考例句：

• The question of woman suffrage sets them at variance.妇女参政的问题使他们发生争执。
• The voters gave their suffrage to him.投票人都投票选他。

10 amendment   

n.改正，修正，改善，修正案

参考例句：

• The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
• The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。

11 orchestra   

n.管弦乐队；vt.命令，定购

参考例句：

• He plays the violin in an orchestra.他在管弦乐队中演奏小提琴。
• I was tempted to stay and hear this superb orchestra rehearse.我真想留下来听这支高超的管弦乐队排练。