Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What's more, the pedestrian naturalism of Barrie's golfscapes is relieved, now & then, by a whiff of romantic feeling. "I have allowed myself the privilege," he says in the catalogue foreword, "of interpreting each hole in the time of day, or season of the year, that seemed most appropriate. For instance the 5th hole at [Clementon, NJ.'s] Pine Valley was painted on a grey morning, after an all-night rain. Pine Valley is a rugged course, as all golfers know, and this is reached with a 218-yd. shot uphill. The green . . . is as formidable...
...Joyce Gary suggest writing that shines with wit and good humor even when they are dealing with serious stuff. Though Gary's work runs to richness and Green's to slyness, they have one thing in common: they make most U.S. novelists of 1950 seem lugubriously pedestrian...
...Cambridge, Kirkland and Broadway streets (in front of Littauer and Phillips Brooks House). With crowded traffic, crossing that intersection is indeed a terrifying and dangerous experience. While a policeman is stationed there sometimes, he is absent at other times when he is really needed. Perhaps the answer is a pedestrian push-button traffic light or perhaps longer hours for the policeman...
...prize-a 150-lb. calf-went to a Bologna leftist named Armando Baldinelli. His oil of peasants parading with pitchforks was straightforward enough, but it was also as pedestrian as it was proletarian. Other artists carted off such prizes as an irrigation pump, a pony, fertilizer, tomato paste, sausages, and of course cheeses...
...around outside the rocket, the tendency is to snicker rather than become alarmed over the fact that he may not come back, because you are quite sure that he will. The remarkable rates of speed which George Pal's vehicle attains do not keep "Destination Moon" from begin a pedestrian movie...