Word: armchair
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...From armchair athlete to bloody Sunday...
...hobby's aristocrats. With good reason. All of the 600 or so figures on his table, each about 2 in. tall, were painstakingly hand-painted in the exact regimental colors and insignia of the period. The cost of the miniatures is about $1.75 per man. Wellington meets other armchair generals about three times a year. Object: large-scale wars involving as many as 4,000 figures. "I guess it's an attempt to get at the playing at tin soldiers that's left in us," he theorized. "Left in us? What am I saying? That...
...generally odious. The '60s, if nothing else, were a dynamic, essential turning point, of which the '70s are the antithesis. Then there is the "lobotomization of America" argument, which points to television and pre-professionalism and People Magazine as the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity and rampant escapism. Armchair (and journalistic) philosophers can rant forever, yet still achieve nothing by this course. No one dares come to the inescapable conclusion: This country is dying, slowly, and there's very little that anyone will be able to do about it in the near future. Perhaps it's a case of paranoia...
...group of armchair quarterbacks to sit back and call for what can only be seen as a romanticized vision of a '60s radical government, after the convention has labored for six months to incorporate student views in order to produce a viable proposal for effective student government, is as counterproductive as it is sorely misguided. An activist, grass-roots coalition of students that would stridently demand University cooperation with their wishes may be a lofty ideal, but it can hardly be taken seriously as an alternative to the well-thought-out proposed Assembly. Such a coalition would be too decentralized...
...Murray), a middle-aged writer who has come back to his boyhood home near Dublin to bury his father and dispose of the old man's effects. As he begins stuffing faded letters and papers into the kitchen stove, who should shuffle in and plop into his favorite armchair but old Da himself (Barnard Hughes)? Only to be followed by Young Charlie (Richard Seer), Charlie's teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum of privacy." The play...