Word: pedestrianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of the ancient faiths and indomitable spirit of man"--and from other critics something less than blind enthusiasm--whatever, I say, one thinks of it, one cannot deny its dramatic power and effectiveness. This dramatic power is what John Barbirolli fails to recreate. He is in general a pedestrian conductor, lacking the ability to envision a whole symphony in one flash, and so give his performances a clear stamp. The recording of the Sibelius Second suffers from this indeterminateness. It is rushed and nervous in places, stodgy in others, and prevailingly slovenly. One may quarrel with details of tempi...
...morning last week Professor Frederick Burt Farquharson of the University of Washington arrived at the bridge as usual to make motion pictures of its gentle writhing under the wind. Soon after him came 25-year-old college student Winfield Brown, who paid his 10? pedestrian fee and walked across for the thrill. Approaching was a logging truck and an automobile driven by mild, baldish Leonard Coatsworth, reporter on the Tacoma News-Tribune. Mr. Coatsworth stopped to look at the undulations before he paid his toll. They were no worse than usual...
Classicists Cairns, Tate and Van Doren earnestly tried to enliven their performance with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...
Died. Franklin Henry Hooper, 78, editor emeritus of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; of injuries when he was hit by a truck; in Saranac Lake, N. Y. After supervising five Encyclopaedia editions as managing or U. S. editor, he became editor-in-chief in 1932, retired two years ago. A dauntless pedestrian, Editor Hooper persistently flouted traffic signals, replied to friends' pleas for caution: "We are all going to die some...
...they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...