Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jordan's Crown Prince Mohammed, 20, madcap brother of worldly and fairly wise King Hussein, who is four years older tooled through the crowded streets of Amman with his aide in his car and bowled over a hapless pedestrian. A hostile mob converged on Mohammed's royal presence. Somebody in the car started shooting, killed at least one, winged several others. Mohammed, in a bad version of a Middle Eastern western, then fled to his brother's palace. Hussein, brought close to the ignition point by his brother's antics, rushed off to condole the bereaved...
...Lonely Island. A more serious complaint is that the tried and true New Yorker formulas of the 1920s and '30s are out of place in the 1960s. The shapeless, plotless New Yorker short-story form tends more and more to pedestrian tales of the Irish moors and "When-I-was-a-child-in-Afghanistan-my-grandmother-used-to-tell-me" reminiscences. The New Yorker's cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they...
Snow is attracting more and more attention in the U.S., and his latest novel-No. 8 in the projected cycle-is a June Book-of-the-Month. Even his fans admit that he is a pedestrian writer, a precise but prosaic documentarian. What makes Snow fascinating to many readers is his subject-the infighting that goes on along "the corridors of power," and the sort of cold, uncivil war that rages between what Snow labels the Two Cultures-traditional and scientific...
...bars and nightclubs were closed. The university was shut down. The military governor banned any mention of the events in the press, and denied that anybody had been killed. But hospitals reported five dead and many wounded. That night Istanbul was a ghost city. Not a pedestrian, not a car was seen in the streets...
...beside Huxley's-comes through in Biographer Cyril Bibby's book. He is abetted in forewords by Huxley's two greatly talented grandsons : Sir Julian and Aldous Huxley. Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers unfold-physician, biologist, lecturer, theological controversialist. The greatest "scientific humanist" of his age, Huxley was once tempted to become...