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...boys from Bucharest did the customary tourist scene-a bateau mouche ride down the Seine, a grand tour of Versailles, a quick tramp through the Louvre, a weekend in the Loire Valley chateau country-but at the same time took plenty of opportunity to flirt with the French government. Charles de Gaulle is convinced that the Soviet bloc is crumbling under the pressure of traditional nationalisms, thus opening opportunities for the spread of French influence. De Gaulle himself granted Maurer an hour-long audience in which he turned on that rarely seen Gaullist charm. As Maurer emerged, newsmen asked...
...Americans of Chapala and Ajijic have adopted many Mexican ways as their own. They look forward to the Thursday and Saturday paseo of boys and girls circling the town plaza in opposite directions to look each other over and flirt their way into marriage. They are careful to cover their mouths against the night air "to avoid catching cold," and not to gush over a Mexican baby, out of respect for the Indians' belief that this will give the child the evil eye. They say "This is your home" when guests enter their houses, and they serve frijoles instead...
...barely two months after the death of his father. On many insignificant details-such as whether Keats had syphilis when he wrote Endymion-the two biographers differ sharply (Ward: yes, Bate: no). But they emphatically agree that Fanny Brawne, the girl Keats wanted to marry, was not the heartless flirt that Keats's friends and generations of Keats's sympathizers make her out to be. She loved Keats and was patient with his on-again, off-again courtship...
...midnight dreary, while he ponders, weak and weary, the hero (Vincent Price) of this picture hears a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door. "Surely," says he, "surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth...
There is little inherent danger in renewed testing itself, particularly if the tests are kept underground. The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision of the man in the Kremlin. What is alarming is Khrushchev's new willingness to flirt with terror. Conceivably, he could misjudge the resolution of the West, and bring on himself and the world a war he never expected. In the weeks and years ahead, the West must steel itself for another kind of test-a test of nerve...