Word: pedestrianism
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...beleaguered man, life is an uphill obstacle course. Between the cradle and the grave stretches an endless multitude of problems, every one of which cries out for decision. At what moment is it safe for the pedestrian to challenge the hazards of wheeled traffic? If a picnic is scheduled for tomorrow, what are the odds against rain? By what mysterious standards does a man pick a friend, a pastime, a profession or a wife...
Vonnegut's eloquent concern transforms something as pedestrian as a war movie, seen back to front, into a vision, which in its weird way is as effective as any short passage ever written against war: "American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses, took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. . . .The bombers opened their bomb-bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted...
PUSHKIN, by David Magarshack. In a solid, if sometimes pedestrian biography, the poet who was a founding father of Russian literature often seems more like a rakehell uncle...
PUSHKIN, by David Magarshack. In a solid, if sometimes pedestrian biography, the poet who was a founding father of Russian literature often seems more like a rakehell uncle...
...skilled or white-collar jobs, live in town. Columbia, Md., a new town developed by the Rouse Co. midway between Bal timore and Washington, has succeeded in attracting blacks, who constitute 15% of the city's current population of 4,000; but its architecture tends to be pedestrian, and most residents still work elsewhere. Reston, Va., 18 miles west of Washington, is probably the most esthetically appealing of America's new towns, but it has had serious financial troubles; last autumn, Gulf Oil took the 7,400-acre community over from its developer, Robert E. Simon...