Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also in response to the new enforcement several City councillors yesterday demanded that Robert E. Rudolph, director of Traffic and Parking, speed up the painting of City crosswalks. According to the anti-jaywalking law, a pedestrian must use a crosswalk if the nearest one is within 300 feet...
...Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense that policemen were required to keep pedestrian traffic moving. The price it commanded, $10,000, was the highest paid up to that date for a painting by a living American artist. Yet when Church died in 1900, his fame had been so eclipsed that obituaries noted, "the fact that he was still alive had been almost forgotten...
Anthropology involves plenty of theory, most of it dealing with data on specific peoples and culture areas. Although this data is not always as pedestrian as kinship charts and lists of archaeological eras would indications it seldom titillates like quaint sexual customs and recipes for shrinking heads...
...toward elegant modern museums. In the case of Ellis Island, Johnson decided, the existing turn-of-the-century architecture was scarcely worth preserving, but the nostalgia certainly was. His solution is to take the two major structures, the immigrant station and hospital, turn them into romantic, vine-covered ruins. Pedestrian walkways will wind through the gutted buildings. "The point," he explained, "is to let the spectator himself re-create the feeling of those hard times...
...most humans, walking is the pedestrian business of putting one foot in front of the other. Not so in Germany. There it is a cherished tradition, a cure for ills mental and physical, and the kinetic tie that binds family and society together...