作为调和主义者,他有个理想的背景,出身天主教的南方父亲和出身新教徒的北方母亲。宗派那些对他来说是如此不着边际,以至于当他接触到等级偏见的内容时经常会突然笑起来。政治早已融入他的血液,他的父亲在1922年曾为爱尔兰独立政府效力;尽管他本人犹豫着要不要从学术界转到政界,心不甘情不愿地在公共场所或舞厅里发表党派性演讲,就那相当笨拙地安排和操作,理所当然的败给了他统一党的对手,Charles Haughey。尽管他在1973-77年间任外长,1981-82及1982-87年间担任总理,但仍保持着纯真的心。就像放错了旅行要用的外套,睡衣和手表,他就带着他的爱尔兰财富再分配理论各处奔走,宣称买童鞋要付增值税,此举可能在民调中引发自杀。
Economics was a relatively late interest. He said he learned it at the Irish Times, where hewrote to the end of his life a Saturday column full of figures under the pen-name Analyst.Over 50 years, he reckoned, he produced 2,250,000 words for the Times . History and French were his degree subjects, and hisverbosity in French a source of pride. He embraced the European Economic Communitynot just because it let Ireland reach over Britain to the world, but also because it gave himthe excuse, before meetings in Brussels, to discuss with Fran?ois Mitterrand some puzzlinglacunae in the Catholic intellectual tradition of 19th-century France.
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