Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he settles down in his armchair to read, he turns to old masterpieces (two recent exceptions: the poetry of Pulitzer-Prizewinning U.S. Poet Robert Lowell, which he admires, and a German biography of Albert Einstein, for whom he has great regard). Santayana is never too busy to see visitors, but has little time for other people's opinions. To his New York editor he wrote: "Visitors do not need letters of introduction. Tell them all to come and see me; I shall be delighted to see them, on one condition: that I do all the talking and they...
...Armchair Audit, a show which presents some of the most popular and learned lectures by various eminent professors, continues as an integral part of WHRV cultural pattern...
...murderers (Farley Granger) is horrified by what they have done and gradually comes apart. The other (John Dall) is almost hard enough to carry them both. He is particularly excited by the presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...
...article "Bald Claims" [TIME, July 12] is highly significant from the point of view of modern scientific methodology. Those who have advocated experiment and observation have had a long uphill fight against their opponents, who claim that they can unravel the mysteries of nature by abstruse speculations in an armchair...
...A.M.A. Should she not succeed, her failure would be well advertised, and her business would probably go under. On the face of it, this is in the noble Galilean tradition of experiment. The medieval thinker, embodied in Dr. Morris Fishbein, rejects experiment and observation, and asserts from his armchair that the thing is impossible. Are the "dead cells" in his scalp, or are they a few centimeters lower...