Word: pedestrianized
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...analysis of the President's boyhood, youth, political beginnings makes all previous biography of the President seem pedestrian. His passage on the effect of poliomyelitis on Mr. Roosevelt-that it made him "one of us"-is sinewy writing. dramatically effective and exceedingly plausible. Johnson's careful dissection of the Roosevelt Governorship of New York ("one of the most intricate and skillful games of cutthroat ever played in the United States") is also a masterly...
Cambridge and metropolitan engineers have attempted a solution in the past. Thirty-one collisions and a pedestrian's death prompted an investigation in 1938. Plans were drawn for a traffic circle around the subway entrance. But the impossibility of avoiding many cross-movements in traffic, coupled with pressure from adamant taxi men who wanted their parking space, caused the idea to fizzle. Any thought of an over-pass was stifled by the red condition of the treasury. However, one draftsman worked out a very practical solution which still can be realized...
Hudson's Bay (20th Century-Fox), a pedestrian exploration of the beginnings of the great fur company, is mostly talking and walking. The rest is mostly Man Mountain Laird Cregar, a newcomer to the movies, and Paul Muni, badly in need of a shave and with a French accent so realistic that it is practically unintelligible...
...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...