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...Galindez and Murphy are forgotten, the strongman's state has little chance of rivaling traditional Caribbean vacation lands. The few tourists who do visit it return to report a polite but lifeless people, depressingly adept at following the rules of appeasing egomania, but no fit company for a fling...
...this time cast as a lass-grabbing U.S. tycoon just Gary's age (56). He perfunctorily amasses millions while concentrating chiefly on his globe-girdling conquests; he only counts his assignations, and his corporations take care of themselves. While working on a big deal during his annual Paris fling, Casanova Cooper is rudely interrupted by mysterious, wide-eyed Ariane (Audrey Hepburn). His big deal's husband, warns Audrey, lurks with a loaded revolver just outside Cooper's Ritz suite. Thus saved from a drilling, grateful Gary turns his wolfish attentions to Audrey...
...ready for conversion until it has made the cultural corpse dangerously radio-active. Perhaps Western civilization has not yet reached the condition of Alexandria. Perhaps we are living in the last days of the Republic. Today we are not quite desperate. We are ready to have just one more fling at nationalism and egotism and secularism, one more bid to create paradise on earth by harnessing the atom. After we have blown ourselves to smithereens, then we will admit defeat and begin to look for the good life in some other context...
...double dares that Bill Knowland likes to fling at Dwight Eisenhower concerns U.S. aid programs to Communist Yugoslavia-foreign aid which, the Senate Republican leader is convinced, "just does not make sense." Last week Ike quietly stepped across Knowland's line: he ordered shipments of military aid to Belgrade, suspended for almost a year, to start up again...
...this reason we shouldn't take the devotees of Continentalism too seriously. The Continentalism movement is as harmless as its members are ineffectual. In another few years they will probably have terminated their college fling, got a hair cut and a family, and will have swapped their Creeping Continentalism for a Galloping Professionalism, or at the least a Beaming Suburbanism...