The Writer's Almanac from Wednesday, November 1, 2017 “Feeling East” by Gayle Brandeis from The Selfless Bliss of the Body. © Finishing Line Press, 2017. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 On this day in 1993, the European Union was formally established. The EU was a product of The Maastricht Treaty, which had been drafted in 1991 by delegates from the European Community Meeting at Maastricht in the Netherlands. They proposed strengthening the European parliament, creating a central European bank, and sharing common citizen rights, security, and foreign policies. The treaty also called for a single European currency, which would come to be known as the “euro.” The idea of Europe forming a kind of super-bloc wasn’t new; the idea had been bandied about by Winston Churchill back in 1946, when he called for a “kind of United States of Europe” in a speech at Zurich University.
John Lardner’s retort to Rice’s “one great scorer” sentiment: “Right or wrong is all the same, when baby needs new shoes, it isn’t how you play the game, it’s whether you win or lose.”
John Lardner’s retort to Rice’s “one great scorer” sentiment: “Right or wrong is all the same, when baby needs new shoes, it isn’t how you play the game, it’s whether you win or lose.”