Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those armchair deans who doubt that the University has made tremendous strides in recent years consider three of the biggest Harvard-related stories of the last twelve months...
English Author Jonathan Raban, 43, has earned a reputation as a diverting guide for armchair tourists. His best-known travel books are Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth (1979) and Old Glory (1981), a Huckleberry Finnish, updated account of a journey down the Mississippi. With much of the world left to explore and write about, Raban has elected to make a voyage of a different and distinctly perilous kind. Foreign Land is his first novel...
...Style should be somewhere by the desk where the letters get written. The clutter of the children's rooms ought to yield dog- eared copies of Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. The Essays and Letters are both within easy reach of the overstuffed armchair in front of the fireplace. For A Subtreasury of American Humor, the best bet is probably the bedside table in the guest room, where Aunt Mary left it a month or so ago. E.B. White's death last week, at 86, was cause for sadness in many spots in millions...
Fingerprint identification of criminals has been routine since the turn of the century, when Scotland Yard pioneered its systematic use. Computers were brought into the process in 1976, when the FBI began converting some 17 million prints to digital form. Today, every armchair detective knows better than to pick up a gun by its handle, lest he obliterate fingerprints that could identify the killer...
...dinners inspires the idea to open The Homesick Restaurant, the Learys are sexless, neutral creatures whose homesick tendencies keep them permanently sheltered. Determined to save herself from a similarly myopic fate, Sarah bails out on a marriage run to entropy. The frustrated, impatient sister Penelope scornfully calls Macon "an armchair traveller," an Odysseus who can't even get up a sense of adventure...