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...living room of a suite in Kirkland House there is an armchair. That is where Doug sits-indeed, that is where Doug lives. It is an old chair, an uncomfortable chair, a smelly chair (a druken kid from across the hall pissed on it once)-but Dough doesn't care. Why should...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: GOING CRAZY AT HARVARD They Shoot Horses . . . | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

Thanks to your article, I know now that Nicky-poo is real. A real egocentric who uses his fire-eating "social commentary" and the fame (?) deriving therefrom as a lever to get himself little pay raises from his imbecilic capitalist employers. A real armchair revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1970 | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Bernstein (lounging in an armchair in tartan slacks): You mean you've got to wing it. . .I dig absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Upper East Side Story | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...eyes to the light blue-and-green sofa and the shining desk and the blue-and-green tinted lamps. This was like the house of one of his daughters-in-law: it made him nervous but of course he complimented her on her good taste. In a light-green armchair sat a pleasant, youngish man holding a small book. Vag looked at him curiously. He felt obliged to state his business, but he had none...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Cabbages and Kings Giving Up the Ghost | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

...have been published since the invention of printing? Maybe 25-50 million, of which over 1 million before 1800. What percentage of these books are ever read, by all the undergraduates, Ph.D. candidates and professors in the United States, in an academic year? If we want to leave our armchair and travel in the past. we can use these books...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

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