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Virginia Woolf called the ideal of womanhood in this period “The Angel in the House”: a retiring, fragile creature who could not withstand the rigors of the public arena.
Of course, this ideal was a double-edged sword: their ostensible fragility – and their assigned role as icons of sexual purity and ignorance – was used to exclude women from influencing outcomes that affected their own destinies.
The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless.
Of course, the ideal of a united Europe is much older than Monnet’s scheme.
Since then, the European ideal has gone through many changes, but two themes remained constant.
One ideal was that of a unified Christendom, with Europe at its center.
The other ideal was eternal peace.
The European ideal has parallels in other parts of the world.
The post-1945 ideal of a united Europe was very much a planner’s archetype, a technocratic Utopia.
And, certainly for Monnet and the other founders of postwar Europe, it was an entirely benign, even noble, ideal.
And so, barring a miracle, the time bomb within post-war Europe’s beautiful ideal is about to explode.
This respite offers an ideal opportunity to push forward with reforms.
(Central bankers usually define the ideal “temperature” of the economy as annual inflation of about 2%.)
West Africa is an ideal staging point along the route from South America to the cocaine markets of Europe.
Faced with the difficulty of meeting their 9% capital-ratio requirement, they will achieve the target by selling assets and contracting credit – not exactly an ideal scenario for economic recovery.
As an incomplete, technocratic creation, the EU is an ideal target for populist attacks.
Now is the ideal time to initiate this process.
Of course, cooperatives have sometimes struggled to live up to the ideal.
And Taylor was in an ideal position to deliver that message, because he served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs until 2005, which means that he met regularly with Greenspan, then the Fed’s chair, in private.
Given the stark changes in economic conditions, however, it is now in Russia’s national interest to reassure international markets that it is a reliable place to do business, for which a new PCA would serve as an ideal signal.
This may not be ideal, but it is better than prolonging a fight that cannot be won.
In an ideal steady state, pension regimes would not redistribute income across cohorts born at different points in time.
But for others, America stands on an ideal of greater social justice and economic equality – which nowadays should include a commitment to address climate change (a barely-discussed issue in the midterms), given that global warming will harm the poor more than the rich.
Turkey’s democratic revival represents an ideal opportunity for the EU to rekindle its relations with the country.
And it has testified to the good sense of those who have been arguing for years, in a variety of Asian and wider global contexts, that maritime search, rescue, and disaster relief is an ideal place to start in creating confidence building mechanisms aimed at laying the foundations for conflict prevention and resolution.
In an ideal world, where compromise is unnecessary, US fiscal policy would maintain the commitments embedded in the social-welfare system, even as demographic and other forces drive up costs (especially for health care).
(Britain’s ideal outcome is no secret, after all.)
They listen with sympathy, and sometimes even emotion, to the testimonies of the generation for whom Europe was synonymous with the ideal of reconciliation and reconstruction.
The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak; it is the “Goldilocks rate” produced by market forces, with the RBI focusing on attracting long-term capital inflows and intervening only to maintain orderly movement of the rupee versus other currencies.
Most only partially approach the ideal case of clean air, where none can be excluded and all can benefit simultaneously.
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