Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difference between being righthanded and being lefthanded is not often thought about by the armchair athlete. Often, being lefthanded can yield the right result...
...Armchair fans like televised sports. They make Sunday afternoons more interesting and make it possible to enjoy the action without braving inclement weather or paying admission...
Long a window on the world to armchair travelers, the National Geographic Society prepares to celebrate its centennial...
...Carlucci case, the problem is not so critical because McEnroesque tantrums on the tennis courts don't bring out the armchair moralizers like Judge Ginsburg's pot smoking, Sen. Biden's plagiarizing, or Gary Hart's womanizing. For those men, revelations about their private lives had much graver consequences. Ginsburg's Supreme Court nomination fell through and Biden and Hart had to withdraw from the presidential campaign...
...argue, as Moynihan does, that the current scandals are mostly linked by coincidence. Ethical introspection, after all, is at odds with the pragmatism of the national culture. It is not accidental that the country's favored metaphor is sports: a factual world of detailed rules and final scores, where armchair disputes can be resolved by instant replays. Questions of what constitutes right and wrong are far more troubling, but there comes a time in the life of a nation when they must be addressed, not avoided...