<正>阅读地带A When I told my father I was moving to Des Moines,Iowa,he told me about the only time he had beenthere.It was in the 1930s,when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University(SMU)in Dallas,Texas.He also worked as a professor at SMU,and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease.She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.