Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural manneredness that sometimes overwhelms the pleasure we take in the novel's intelligent style. Occasionally we detect pretentiousness, a conscious literacy, an assumed intellectual and artistic sophistication. Allusions to literature, paintings, sculptures, mythology, and the great, exotic places of the world abound, and while we enjoy this armchair journey, Hazzard cannot always assimilate it into the flow; it becomes unfortunate, irksome baggage. She establishes Caro Bell, the Australian heroine, as a charming and sensitive woman, but Caro's literary cultivation seems incongruously elevated from what Hazzard has told us of her education. Her expansive knowledge seems artificially constructed...
...ratings over four-year champion ABC, whose jackrabbit programming shuffles fell flat. Final score: CBS, 19.6 Nielsen points for the seven-month period; ABC, 19.5; and NBC, in its first full season under Programming Whiz Fred Silverman, an embarrassing 17.4. "The victory went to the network with armchair, baggy-suits stability," says Alan Horn, president of Norman Lear's Tandem Productions. "CBS makes careful decisions and sticks by them. Slow and steady wins the race...
...program is not intended for armchair Audubons. To earn the coveted N.W.F. habitat certificate, an applicant must fill out a detailed questionnaire describing the facilities the yard provides: "seasonal menus for wildlife," natural and artificial cover, water for drinking and dunking, and other measures taken to attract furred and feathered friends. In addition, the owner is asked to list all the animals observed in the habitat during the previous year. In a letter to program applicants, N.W.F. Executive Vice President Thomas Kimball writes: "A nationwide network of these mini-refuges could demonstrate that people really can help wildlife win their...
Usually the Vatican's gilded Hall of the Consistory is reserved for sacred rites. This time, however, a flock of first-nighters led by Pope John Paul II himself, in a front-row-center armchair, filled the hall for a special performance of Polish Playwright Andrzej Jawien's allegory, The Goldsmith's Shop. The play, about three married couples with differing problems and a goldsmith who represents God, drew a chorus of clerical bravos, which was no surprise. Jawien was the nom de plume under which John Paul, then Polish Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote the play...
Jaymie Potts '83, Danby's roommate, said, "armchair missionary work" is effective and sufficient for many people, adding that she "gained insight at Urbana. I can do something at home with prayer and money." Potts works for "Evangalism in Communist Lands," an organization that sends sections of the Bible that are hidden between the pages of personal letters to Christians in the Soviet Union. Agreeing with Potts, Chris Smith '80, president of the HRCF, explained that God instructs every Christian to perform a specific role, although not necessarrily that of a missionary--an idea that several others also mentioned...