Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jesuit Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press and Catholic World Report, remarks that fellow conservatives have worried for years about "revisionist pressure groups operating on the new English translation for their own ends." When the Vatican first gave permission in 1963, parishes clamored for rituals in English. Its pedestrian style aside, the current English Mass was prepared before liturgists began to champion gender-inclusive language...
...families change, so will the look of new communities. Is this the suburb of the future? On Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...
Wheelchair ramps will be added at the Mt. Auburn St. entrance and street-level pedestrian walkways will replace the steeply sloping garage ramp entryway...
Take Mikhail from St. Petersburg. A 42-year-old mathematician who taught in a high-level university for 18 years, he has been forced for the past year to sing for pennies on Jerusalem's pedestrian mall. Store-keepers shoo him away, passersby laugh at him. He cannot stand the shame of making a fool of himself before fellow Jews...
...pedestrian is probably wearing sandals. They might be clunky, inch-thick corksoled ones with fat leather straps. Or, they could be inch-thick black rubber-soled contraptions, secured to the person's feet by brightly colored nylon straps...