Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love means to give, and notwithstanding Wesker's pedestrian imagery, the play rates a Q.E.D. on its major proposition. The fact that it was written by a kitchen-sink realist like Wesker is added evidence that the generation of British playwrights that began by looking back in social anger is now looking forward in private anguish...
Some more speculation: Babe's use of film and other media conflicts with his rather pedestrian notion of a crowd of puppets--clown-like figures unable to stand straight who exist only insofar as they are manipulated by the tribunes or swayed by mass instinct. The crowd is conceived as pantomime, the movies as a sophisticated blend of film and drama, and the two styles belong to two different kinds of production. Shakespeare made the crowd puppet-like enough; Babe extends the metaphor and is heavy-handed...
...that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting-board, speculate buildings. Instead, they are full of novel concepts, from aerial pedestrian walkways to 23-story interior courts, none of which Portman thinks would have been realized if he had not maintained complete control...
...difficult to visualize even now in its final form, because the red-brick plaza which is the cement which holds the whole project together isn't finished yet. With pedestrian underpasses going through, a plaza with trees, walks, benches, etc., one will be able to see clearly the cencept which I.M. Pei developed for the Government Center. It will provide some continuity between Beacon Hill--the State House and the red-brick sidewalks -- down through Scollay Square, to Dock Square, and ultimately to the waterfront which is also to be renewed...
This leads us next to the next renewal area. There will be some change in the off-ramps affording the pedestrian some means of direct access to the Waterfront. With a relocated Atlantic Avenue, a combination of highrise apartment houses, town houses, and some converted warehouses (into apartments), hundreds of millions of dollars is being invested in new construction for Boston in the Waterfront Project...