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...that note, the leaders adjourned for a small ceremonial lunch?langouste, pate de foie gras, noix de veau Orloff and three French wines. Jackie sat at De Gaulle's right, charmed him with her careful, schoolbook French. When he rose to toast his visitors, De Gaulle again spoke in austere tones, but veteran observers of his methods noted a rare, genuine warmth as he told the Kennedys: "You saw this morning how happy Paris was to see you. I do not need to add anything to this...
Pathetic Fallacy. Modern education has deprived all but very senior readers of a schoolbook knowledge of rhetoric; few nowadays can tell the difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded...
...past, it has been said, is the only thing man can change. Winston Churchill, the incredible ex-Hussar officer, has taken full reign over the terrible past. As he tells it, history becomes a matter not of blind forces but of men and the principles that animated them; schoolbook events take on the Shakespearean splendor of character and fate...
...withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot at the white kids"). The city official, far more impressed by Faubus' political power than by the "evidence," signed...
...story of England's Civil War, crowded with gaudy and eloquent figures of drama, squalor and nobility, Churchill has also been writing a neglected chapter in American history. His narrative takes U.S. schoolbook history a generation back from where it usually starts. His brilliant sketch of turbulent 17th century England explains just how the Puritans on the run, gentlemen adventurers and refugees got their start in the New World, and what they had in mind when they touched American soil...