TIME July 05, 2009
81. The Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt (F.D.R.)

A. The Price of World Peace By PETER BEINART

81A-1-383
When it comes to foreign policy, liberals generally like leaders with brains. (Think Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.) Conservatives generally prize backbone. (Think Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush.) So what do we do with Franklin D. Roosevelt? He helped save the world from the greatest barbarism it has ever known and laid the foundation for the greatest run of peace and prosperity in history and yet by most accounts had neither intellectual heft nor a stiff spine.
It's a question that puzzled F.D.R.'s contemporaries as well. In 1931, during Roosevelt's first presidential campaign, the columnist Walter Lippmann warned that "he just doesn't happen to have a very good mind." The satirist H.L. Mencken called him "too feeble and wishy-washy a fellow to make a really effective fight." Yet this preppy, dilettantish mama's boy had something that his critics didn't appreciate: instinct. Once, as Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were being driven through the New Mexico desert along a barren and featureless landscape that they had traversed only once before, they came to a fork in the road. Their driver, who lived in the area and had driven the route many times, could not remember which way to turn. F.D.R. spoke up immediately: "You go straight ahead."

A. 어휘
legacy 遺産(유산). liberal 자유주의자. conservative 보수주의자.
prize 존중하다. backbone 강한 의지(정신). barbarism 야만적인 행동, 야만.
foundation 토대. run 진로, 발전. prosperity 번영.
by most accounts 모든 평가에 의하면. heft 중량, 영향력. stiff 단호한, 굳은, 뻣뻣한.
spine 脊柱(척주), 등뼈. contemporaries 同時代人(동시대인)들. as well 또한.
satirist 풍자가. feeble 약한, 무기력한. wishy-washy 우유부단한, 김빠진.
preppy 미숙한, 어리석은. dilettantish 어설픈, 道樂(도락) 기분의, 예술을 좋아하는.
mama's boy 마마보이. critics 비판가들, 비평가들. appreciate 평가하다, 감지하다.
instinct 직관, 본능. barren 不毛地(불모지)의, 不姙(불임)의.
featureless 단조로운, 특색이 없는. landscape 풍경. traverse 횡단하다.
fork 分岐點(분기점).

81A-2-384
It was instinct that helped F.D.R. find his way through a political labyrinth that was navigable by neither intellect nor principle alone. His basic problem as Nazism stalked Europe was that some Americans wanted to isolate themselves from the world while others wanted to remake it in America's image. Yet both paths, he believed, led nowhere. The U.S. could neither escape the world nor fully redeem it. F.D.R.'s task was to persuade his people to put their money and blood on the line, even though, despite their best efforts, the world would remain a nasty place.
This was the conundrum that had destroyed his old boss Woodrow Wilson, whom Roosevelt had served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. When Wilson led Americans into World War I, he told them they were abandoning their historical isolation in order to create a world in which the strong no longer menaced the weak. But at the Paris Peace Conference following the war, it became clear that the victorious European powers had no interest in birthing such a world. So when Wilson returned home trumpeting the newly created League of Nations, Americans asked why they should join an organization that might require the U.S. to again sacrifice its sons for a world that would not live by its principles. The Senate rejected the league, America returned to political isolation, and Wilson died a broken man.

A. 어휘
labyrinth 迷路(미로). navigable 항해할 수 있는. intellect 지성, 知力(지력).
stalk 활개치며 걷다, 몰래 다가가다. isolate 고립시키다. path 길, 통로.
escape ...을 벗어나다, 탈출하다. redeem 구원하다, 되찾다.
on the line 이도 저도 아닌, 애매한.
nasty 성가신, 감당하기 어려운, 불결한. conundrum 수수께끼.
Assistant Secretary 次官補(차관보). the Navy 海軍省(해군성). abandon 포기하다.
historical isolation 역사적 고립주의. the strong 强國(강국), 강자.
Paris Peace Conference 파리 평화회담. powers 列强(열강). birth ...을 낳다.
the newly created League of Nations 새롭게 창설된 국제연맹.
organization 條約機構(조약기구). live by its principles 원칙에 따라 살다.
senate 上院(상원). reject 거부하다.

B. 구문
- Wilson died a broken man.
[Wilson 대통령은 실망한 사람이 되어 죽었다.]
cf. Byron died young.
[Byron은 젊어서 죽었다.]