Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unwilling--because, members point out, the Center has always been academic in intent, avoiding political or community entanglements. It functions simply to find scholarly research on an individual basis. (The Center, that is, serves an "umbrella function" for armchair urban scholars...
...December, Roxbury spokesmen Bryant Rollins and George Morrison launched a broadside against the Joint Center after Harvard and MIT received $6 million from the Ford Foundation for urban research: "Research conducted by armchair theoreticians and uninvolved intellectuals is a pure waste of money and works to maintain the status quo. By [this] time, people throughout Boston--and particularly people in our black community--should be entirely fed up with researchers and social planners and urban developers telling us and our communities what our problems are and what the solutions...
...sales of $277 million. In his tender announcement last week, Ling also noted that the company is involved in a threeyear, $400 million improvements program, which ought to sustain earnings in years to come. All that should make J. & L. an attractive occupied territory for any corporate armchair general...
Shaw, 19. "You forget about yourself and you pay attention." Even so, the brass is still making sure that rookies do not turn into armchair warriors. "They will walk a total of 200 miles and fire the rifle 784 times," declares Major General Thomas A. Kenan, Fort Ord's commander. "Basic trainees will always have to do some things the hard...
...falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away), but it became his passion; it had the advantage of belonging to the boyhood of history. Later, for perhaps the very same reason, he threw himself into the study of Gaelic, spent years translating a 12th century Latin bestiary, and became an armchair authority on the Emperor Hadrian...