Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perilous pedestrian situation on Mass. Ave. will soon be remedied, according to secret new architectural reports. No more bricks dropping out of a wooden sky on passing 'Cliffies, predict the engineers, no more puddles, joy though they may be to the Cambridge psyche, and no more splinters in the community feet. New measurements indicate that when the last brick is removed from Dudley House, the whole damn Health Center topples. University officials are undecided whether to go ahead and turn the resulting crater into a parking lot or squash court or whether to halt construction and let the clear...
...proposals is that Harvard build a parking garage opposte the Broadway Market and a pedestrian bridge between the Yard and Memorial Hall. The engineers also recommended closing off Kirkland St. north of Mem Hall; making Massachusetts Ave., Mt. Auburn St., Boylston St., and Brattle and Eliot Sts. one-way; extending Cambridge St. at its western end; and putting through a new road between Garden St. and Memorial Drive...
...idea that has been talked about for at least ten years" but that no specific plans had ever been prepared for it, largely because of its high expected cost. The traffic report warned that "as student facilities are increased . . . and normal traffic growth increases vehiculas volumes, the conflict between pedestrian and vehicle will create more congestion and increase the accident potential" along Cambridge...
...tone is unfailingly pedestrian. When he misses his appointed train, Hardy dutifully writes to explain his absence, as on Oct. 12, 1892: "I have attended Tennyson's funeral-and find I cannot get back very well tonight-so I will wait till tomorrow-returning about the usual time-though possibly by the Salisbury train, about twenty minutes later than the 6:13. George Meredith was there-also Henry James, Huxley, etc." When Hardy becomes more solicitous, it is almost always to forestall a visit by his wife: "Though I should like to see you in London I feel...
...flowed through the streets, though drivers cautiously detoured a few blocks to avoid the trouble spots. There were some grimly humorous sights: outside the Hotel Caravelle, a Diem policeman seated in a tiny European car struggling desperately to get out of his uniform before the rebels spotted him; a pedestrian dashing madly around a corner, bullets kicking up sparks at his heels; a man scooting into a sidewalk pissoir an instant before it was riddled with machine-gun fire (five minutes later he dashed out unhurt). As tanks whipped off bursts of ammunition, children would duck right under the smoking...