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...easy subject to tackle. In the two months he served as prime minister before being overthrown in a coup and eventually executed, Lumumba had managed to alienate the outgoing Belgians, the United States and the U.N. Worse - from a Western point of view - he deigned to flirt with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War. The accumulation of propaganda against Lumumba was so damning that Peck initially found it hard to focus on the man. "I couldn't feel any sympathy for Lumumba," he says. "It took me time to see the man behind the image...
...trying to enjoy a bit of blessed idleness at the same time. Except this idyll has been interrupted by a friend's talk-request, which led to a conversation which has led to me being late for a meeting at Uno's. There we'll talk, and I'll flirt with the idea of having my first legal drink on the way to tonight's Going of the Hour ceremony...
...sure. C. S. Lewis argues that they actually invented something new in the human heart, and we've been copying it ever since. In a thousand different ways, we all learn the rudiments of romantic love from popular culture. Kids learn how to kiss and flirt from the movies and TV, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to dumb clichés they learned as children...
...recognize ballroom dancing as an official sport, and has not even included it on its list of "emerging" sports--a list that includes synchronized swimming among others. Additionally, many purists among sports fans consider it odd that an event so entirely unlike baseball and basketball would flirt with any level of athletic recognition...
...same as "how." We don't know how the brain holds the logical connections among ideas that spell the difference between "Burr slew Hamilton" and "Hamilton slew Burr," between the image of a person winking to realign a contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from the microcircuitry of the living human brain, and most people don't want to donate their brains to science until they're dead. (As Woody Allen said, "It's my second-favorite organ.") For a long time...