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...vision started to fail. He began "to withdraw into regions none of us would ever be able to enter." Meanwhile, as this decline went on, there was Stravinsky in print as a critic for Harper's, a seer for the New York Review of Books, and a chatty armchair philosopher in his own autobiographical books, waxing eloquent about the latest techniques in computer music, Beethoven sonatas, new plays, new ballets, the Panthers, and maxi fashions. The obvious conclusion is that the writer was mostly Craft...
...sure, honest, yes honest, that's right'-Nixon was sitting himself in an armchair next to Lansdale's-'so long...
BOTH for the athletes involved and the armchair sportsmen cheering them on, this month's Olympics promise to be a spectacle of truly Olympian proportions. With a field of over 10,000 competitors vying for 364 gold medals, the task of the spectator will be almost as demanding as that of participant, and to help the former, a special Olympics supplement accompanies TIME this week. The product of weeks of reporting and research, the supplement is a preview of whom to watch and what to expect when the Games get under way in Munich. It was assembled under...
...tight little island nation by packing them off with scholarships to universities in affluent industrial democracies like Australia. "What you want to do is disperse them and open them up to new ideas," Lee says enthusiastically. Results? "They've come back fairly middle class and comfortable, although still armchair critics...
...Oscars, in short, are just another horserace, which makes the contest perfect for the armchair attitudinizing most "culture" demons don't have a chance to indulge...