Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday Times: "In all the literature about the Weimar Republic and the Nazis, there has been nothing like it." Grand in scope, minute in documentation (829 pages), Nemesis of Power may not get the U.S. readers it deserves, but it will hold those it gets in a vise of armchair fascination. It is rich in characters and scenes that a novelist might envy and an actor yearn to play. And as the field-grey shadows of the Reichswehr's erstwhile leaders goose-step across the pages of Nemesis of Power, they may well be passing in review...
...will be a relaxed show, based on curiosity," says Murrow. "It's not supposed to be the greatest thing on television." It isn't. While interesting enough, it is substandard Murrow, who sets high TV standards with his See It Now and special documentaries. From his studio armchair Murrow gazes at a large "window," which seems to lead into an adjoining living room (a remote picture is superimposed on the studio scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella (just home from busting up the third World Series game) about his six kids...
...Villiers had unloaded his full cargo of grief and nostalgia, but not so. The Way of a Ship makes it clear that, after his seven trips around the Horn, sails will be flapping in his memory for life. A bit long on statistics, the book is nevertheless a fine armchair way of getting down to the sea in sailing-ships...
...Emerson, Delaware's Caleb Boggs) had gotten off to weak and disappointing starts. But others among the freshmen looked like real comers. In Minnesota, C. Elmer Anderson had turned out to be a competent, careful administrator and a hail-fellow Eisenhower advocate whose performance has confounded the armchair analysts and won wide approval among the voters. In Illinois, Bill Stratton, another dark horse, had accomplished things that Adlai Stevenson had failed to get done (TIME, July 13). And in Massachusetts, Christian Archibald Herter, 58, a lean, blond giant (6 ft. 4½ in.) with the searching eyes...
...utmost scorn for "intellectual officers" who try to direct battles from an armchair. "The command of men . . . requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and unrelenting will." One of his pet peeves was his own quartermaster corps. Quartermasters, he said, "tend to work by theory and base all their calculations on precedent, being satisfied if their performance comes up to standard . . . [They] complain at every difficulty, instead of ... using their powers of improvisation, which indeed are frequently...