Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, Caroline Ivey's The Family is reassuring in its pedestrian normality. Novelist Ivey has turned to that familiar Southern fixture, a genteel family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel...
...drivers-their accent, their tea-making equipment and their reactions to the U.S.-provided the best newspaper copy. Said one, after cruising down Madison Avenue: "It's the pace you live that worries me more than the traffic. You've got no provision for the pedestrian...
...string of cars rolled into the driveway of the huge, brownish-grey Cairo mansion of Fuad Serag el Din, Egypt's most dangerous politician, one night last week. It was late, after curfew, and the last pedestrian had scurried to shelter. A soldier smartly togged in green hurried over, took a quick look at the curfew pass of Imam Bey, Egypt's political police chief, and snapped a salute. Trusted policemen jumped out of the other cars. Imam Bey rang the bell of the darkened house; a servant told him that Serag el Din was across the street...
...doing maliciously observant sketches of the people he saw. In a few deft strokes, a blob of black ink or a casual crosshatching, he caught the posture and movement of a speeding cyclist, a barmaid scratching her head, an old fiacre driver waiting for a fare, a bemused, potbellied pedestrian...
Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...