Word: pedestrianized
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James Joyce, the great artificer of words who both revitalized and nearly destroyed the English novel with Ulysses, and left even some of his admirers behind in the labyrinth of Finnegans Wake, will not be remembered for his letters. In them he sounds as relaxed, colloquial, and sometimes as pedestrian as a chatty uncle in Chicago. But they make fascinating reading-something like seeing the Bearded Lady without her whiskers or the Fire Eater spooning ice cream...
Feathered Pedestrian...
...models described in your Feb. 18 Letters column, but on behalf of my fellow citizens of this state, I resent Mrs. McKinley's remarks. The road runner or chaparral cock is a cheerful bird, a curious delight to the traveler, an unassuming and, indeed, pedestrian fellow-the antithesis of the long, loud, brassy products designed for conspicuous consumption by the free-wheeling denizens of the freeways...
...author, like the hero, has no point of view about anything. Life seems to be a more or less incomprehensible flux of discontinuous events which lead to the grave. This none too original point of view is developed very skillfully, as in the use of the half-pedestrian, half-romantic oppression of the natives to keep the hero in proper perspective...
...with a deep sense of relief that we learned of President Jordan's crusade to save the spiritual and physical lives of his Radcliffe cyclists. We must congratulate President Jordan on his recent statements urging his flying phantoms to be more considerate of the more pedestrian Cambridge residents...