PERSONAL GLIMPSES XII

From Reader's Digest 

Tom Buckley in New York Times Magazine

Milos Forman, the expatriate Czech director of such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Hair, became an American citizen in 1977. The framed certificate of naturalization hangs in his Manhattan apartment. "It is people like us, the ones who were not born here, who really appreciate this country," he says. "I was moved to tears when I found those magical words 'the pursuit of happiness' in the Declaration of Independence. I knew exactly what the men who wrote it meant. Not 'the right to happiness,' which doesn't exist, but the right to pursue it."