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...interim White House while Calvin Coolidge waited for Warren Harding's widow to vacate the executive mansion two blocks away. Lincoln lived at the Willard with his family before the 1861 inauguration. U. S. Grant would shamble over in the evening to smoke cigars and glower from the armchair set aside for him in a dimly lit corner of the lobby...
INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN RADICALISM, by Staughton Lynd. A historical handbook for the armchair revolutionary by one of the leading scholars of the New Left...
...complaints too. "I don't like the way he allows his life to be governed by soothsayers," she said, harking back to the time he grew so superstitious over the malevolence of the color purple that he refused to enter his house until she had removed a purple armchair. Sellers was sympathetic. "She's so much younger, and I've already done all the things she likes...
...December, Roxbury spokesmen Bryant Rollins and George Morrison launched a broadside against the Joint Center after Harvard and MIT received $6 million from the Ford Foundation for urban research: "Research conducted by armchair theoreticians and uninvolved intellectuals is a pure waste of money and works to maintain the status quo. By [this] time, people throughout Boston--and particularly people in our black community--should be entirely fed up with researchers and social planners and urban developers telling us and our communities what our problems are and what the solutions...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan took over as director of the Center in 1966, trend-predictors expected him to chart a more policy-oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...