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...offers this remedy: a flagon of wine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Christmas Reuelry | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

...really that crass, it's best to reserve bottle gifts for people like your boss, your roommates or the police man who let you off the hook when you were doing 75 down Main Street this Thanksgiving. Of course, there's no reason not to give yourself a little flagon of cheer this Christmas. After what you spend on gifts it'll be about the only affordable thing left

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...love, the extreme narcissist is likely to project his own idealized version of himself onto another person, then worship it for a while. A 19th century example: Herman Melville's attempt at "narcissistic merger" with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville wrote Hawthorne: "By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips-lo, they are yours and not mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Narcissus Redivivus | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Something's Afoot is a thimbleful of nonsense that turns into a flagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Exit Laughing | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...twin-jet all-weather interceptor known in NATO as "Flagon," is capable of Mach 2.5 speeds. Like the MIG-23s, these are the first advanced Sukhois allowed outside Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Latest Gifts from Russia | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

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