Word: dreaming
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...wrote Jean Monnet, the "Father of the European Community" and the universally respected model of today's supranational civil servant. When Monnet died at the age of 90 last week, in his modest country home near Paris, his dream of a United States of Europe, linked both politically and economically, remained unfinished. But Monnet was a patient man. "I'm not an optimist," he once said, "I am simply persistent," and thus he may have been pleased by the progress that had been made toward his overriding vision. Last week, at a summit meeting in Paris, leaders...
Monnet never abandoned his dream of achieving, step by careful step, a united Europe freed at last from the confrontations of past centuries. In 1950 he sold French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on the idea of the European Coal and Steel Community, as a way to defuse ancient Franco-German rivalries. Two years later, the Community was in operation, with Monnet as its president. That successful effort paved the way for the creation of the Common Market, established by the Treaty of Rome...
Monnet resigned as head of the Coal and Steel Community in 1955 and founded the Action Committee for the United States of Europe. Although high office was his for the asking, he preferred to be a backstage lobbyist for his dream of a united Europe, whispering into the ears of Presidents and Premiers, nudging them toward his vision. "The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something," he liked to say. He would add that "there is less competition" in the second category, to which he so clearly belonged...
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Ph.D., bestselling author (Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream), ex-Harvard professor, baseball nut-and lady. Thus when Kearns' favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, took the unprecedented step of inviting her into their training-camp dressing room, Kearns chose the middle way. She went, but only after the team was on the field. "It was neater than most women's locker rooms I've seen," she reported. "The players' clothes were all neatly hung." Admits Kearns: "I'm willing to let someone else be the first woman in there...
...fact, rather than the development of character, we had seen a static retrospective view of types at two stages of life, with little sense of growth between the two ages, which made projection into the "dream" of the future even more difficult. The main reason for this, paradoxically, lies in the main reason for the show's success, the egoism and talents of the performers. From the first moments of parody of the informality of improvisational theater, we were being asked to watch ctors playing parts rather than the parts themselves. The parts became vehicles for the considerable abilities...