Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Safer is more the way Richard Nixon viewed it. Turning the hideaway into a virtual hideout during the Watergate era, Nixon would spend long hours in his favorite armchair next to Aspen's massive central fireplace, with legal pads on his knee, trying to explain away the crisis...
...last week has been hell. Nature's droppings paralyzed Harvard right in the middle of the week, leaving us with no excuse to sleep all day. Worse yet, the tube, our hallowed shrine, has been useless. Empty. Boring. Not even Sports Challenge or Roller Derby. Even the most dedicated armchair beer guzzler can't call As The World Turns sports...
...fencers take note. If you yell fire too often the director knows you're heated up about nothing. Your temper, in fact, can only help extinguish your chances. Remaining cool through it all however, you will be able to do more in a glance than an army of screaming armchair directors...
...cliff overlooking the Pacific. Everyone has his own favorite image of the beaches that border most of the U.S. In The Wild Shores of North America (Knopf; 240 pages; $35), Ann and Myron Sutton manage to capture nearly all of them. Beginning in the icebound Arctic, they take the armchair beachcomber on a scenic tour down the East Coast, past Cape Cod and the islands, along the perilous shoals of the Carolinas, through the lost waterways of the Everglades and Louisiana bayous, then up the West Coast from the desert sands of Baja California, past the cypresses of Monterey...
Members last night ate twelve kinds of cookies, drank pink punch from the club's engraved silver punch bowl and signed up for activities ranging from children's parties to "cosmopolitan" evenings of armchair world travel...