Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where, in Brooklyn, could anyone discover such exotic creatures? In museums, where Marianne Moore loves to peer, and in such dependable sources as the National Geographic and the Illustrated London News. Like all true poets, she is an armchair explorer, her imagination serving as an inner eye. But anyone looking for soulful murk will not find it here. She does not flaunt her secret suffering: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence but restraint...
Although he thinks that today's liberal should take more active stands, Leuchtenberg feels that "there has been an unforunate tendency to despise the armchair liberal." He believes that liberals should sit down and entirely revamp their thinking before they take any more hasty actions...
With the sharp chill of winter in the air, and armchair quarterbacks loudly waging a post-season de-emphasis battle among themselves, Harvard men can once again settle down to some serious, altruistic drinking. A Social Relations thesis has finally formalized the vague nations about the drinking morals of the Harvard...
Some 100,000 descamisados massed before the palace to pay tribute to "our lady of hope." There was a thunderous roar as she was carried in an armchair, a slight figure in a checked burgundy suit, to Perón's side on the balcony. Just before he spoke, the President decorated her with a special medal for relinquishing the vice-presidential nomination. Then, for the first time that anyone could remember, he clasped his wife in a public embrace. The descamisados howled with pleasure...
...maestro's Mozart, which he directed from a pillow-padded armchair, was sometimes hampered by lack of rehearsal and by lack of a disciplined first-rate orchestra, but at its best it showed the same deep understanding and respect for the composer's intentions as does Casals' Bach...