Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call to arms, pointing out instead that Ike's and Monty's hindsights on Gettys burg only reflect a verdict long accepted by the U.S. Army and most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable, for Lee himself conceded afterwards...
...tree, pushed buttons, laid a wreath, accepted gifts, saw sights, made pretty speeches, was dined and wined, received curtsies from some 3,400 ladies of France. In more private moments, she slept in Napoleon's bed, bathed in Empress Eugénie's bathtub, sat in an armchair used by Louis XV, and (according to the calculations of Frenchmen experienced in such calculations) found time to spend just 1½ hours out of the three-day visit alone with her husband...
...drama of bullfighting a little unnecessarily, Bullfight is still well worth seeing. The shorts are not. One includes Spanish dances by Antonio and Rosario which are difficult to watch owing to the fact that the sets don't keep still. The other, which may appeal to Cambridge's armchair revolutionaries and bomb-throwers, includes a tornado, several hurricanes, many atom bombs, an H-bomb, and Krakatoa. It's name is Man vs. Nature...
...incorporated in Frémont's Memoirs, have now been knowledgeably edited by Historian Allan Nevins, who is the best of Féemont's biographers. That they constitute one of the great source books of U.S. history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well as an accomplished scientist, imprisoned the frontier in his reports and maps. His pictures of Indian life...
...family, young Foucauld awed his classmates at St. Cyr and at cavalry school with his man-of-the-worldly ways. Wrote future General Victor d'Urbal: "Anyone who has not seen Foucauld in his room, in white flannel pajamas, comfortably ensconced on a chaise longue or a fine armchair, eating delicious foie gras washed down with an excellent cham pagne, reading Aristophanes in a de luxe edition . . . cannot form a proper idea of a man who knows how to enjoy life...