Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many indignant letters you received from eggheads who took this new moniker personally. The "unhealthy gap" between these self-styled intellectuals and "we, the people" is of course created by their regrettable lack of humor, and their even more regrettable lack of other forms of perspective. These are the armchair variety of philosopher, politician, diplomat, businessman and economist who can't see past theoretical idealism to the cold, practical facts ... I venture to guess that most of them are under 35 -William Allen White's arbitrarily set age for graduation from socialistic idealism. Some of them-Hollywoodians...
Last week, characteristically sparing no superlatives, Franklin published his autobiography* for armchair aficionados. And, characteristically, Franklin was far away from the literary tea set. He was in Spain making his debut as a teacher of young bullfighters, in the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, eight miles from the famed bullfight center of Seville. Franklin had patched up the local bull ring, unused for 25 years, with $6,000 of his own money to provide an arena for his school...
...sheaf of papers at his elbow. He had no written script, and the television crews were so uncertain of his plans that they warmed up two extra cameras in case he should walk out of range of the primary camera. Nixon's wife Pat sat in an armchair a few feet from the desk. When the announcer cued Nixon to start talking, not even Pat knew precisely what Nixon was going...
Author Halsey's arguments are often narrow and sometimes absurd. She writes, in fact, as if the split between God and Mammon had not plagued man from the beginning. Nonetheless, her book is the work of an earnest armchair moralist with an honored American tradition behind her. If, as is very likely, The Folks at Home puts Author Halsey back into the moneymaking nightmare, it will be because she has laid a tremulous but honest finger on a national nerve...
...Imperium," was even more disappointing. Lana Turner turned in one of her most insipid performances as a mid-western showgirl racing after an Italian king. The sound track did no justice to Ezio Pinza's voice and the fake scenery ruined one possible justification for this Technicolor film. Armchair tourists, however, may enjoy a few authentic shots of Italy...