Word: armchairs
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...Augustine famously declared that "the world is a book"; Haus Publishing obviously agreed. So last month the London-based publisher launched The Armchair Traveller, a series of insightful travelogues documenting personal journeys all over the globe. Each volume, printed on thick, creamy paper, features a foldout map. Otherwise, there's no fixed format for The Armchair Traveller. The first four titles are as different in tone and approach as the smooth, expansive river that dominates Along the Ganges is from the wild Celtic waters in the sailing odyssey Cape Wrath to Finisterre. New works arriving in 2006 serve...
...enthusiasts have Fantasy Football. Now there?s a game for armchair fans who would rather root for Dolce & Gabbana. The Fantasy Fashion League (
...improvised without warning, flopping onto the floor when he was meant to sit, tearing pages from a book and pasting them onto Polonius' head with spit. Between scenes he would pounce on a piano or indulge what friends josh as chronic hypochondria by relaxing his back in a vibrating armchair, transported from his book-lined apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone. Kline and the orderly, meticulous director Liviu Ciulei clashed so often that Producer Papp joined in the final staging...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Courses of Instruction present a plethora of varied syllabi taught in an array of structures—lectures, sections, tutorials, seminars, and conference courses. Professors have invented, reinvented, started from scratch, and reinvented again different models for classroom instruction; no amount of armchair theorizing will replace nearly 400 years of evolutionary progress. While a general education program poses unique challenges that may not be fully met by any single course currently offered at Harvard, the vision for HCC’s will be more clearly articulated if it draws on tangible components of Harvard?...
Umberto Eco looks like a genial mentor, white-bearded and approachable, his comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room. Yet the 73-year-old academic and author, condemned to international celebrity by his 1980 debut novel The Name of the Rose, is not without thorns. Today's discourse - ranging from his newest work of fiction, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, to politics, religion and neckties - bristles with sharp observations. Avuncular he may seem, but this famous European intellectual has not mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes...