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...thing with a New Yorker's kind of perverse delight, but after a few stories like that hinterlanders begin to feel both scared and bored. And the other parts of the book that deal with the machinations of Bob Strauss, Democratic National Chairman, or other political figures are pedestrian. One trouble with this book--the big trouble with it--is that most of this stuff has been reproted before. There's just not anything new that a faithful reader of The New York Times, or even Time or Newsweek, doesn't already know...
...Lake is an ideal offering for the cineaste who revels in the romanticizing of the age of heraldry and the Round Table. Yet all the painstaking attention to detail and craftsmanship cannot save the film from deteriorating into a ponderous trek through the medieval Britain of King Arthur, a pedestrian piece of work which fails to justify the necessity of its production...
...make them disappear. The automobile - despite all we have learned of its diabolism - cannot be conjured away. The most we seem able to do is to make futile efforts to appease the automobile -by building parking temples on choice urban real estate and by deferring to the automobile with pedestrian overpasses and tunnels. We drive miles - and when we are there we walk miles - all for the convenience of the airplane. Our national politics is shaped more and more by the imperious demands of television. Our negotiations with the Genie of Television all seem to end in unconditional surrender...
...proposals for extending the MBTA Red Line include making a pedestrian mall out of a section of street connecting Mass Ave to Brattle St. and constructing a tunnel under Mass Ave at Johnston Gate...
Moulton said the University is concerned about "ways to eliminate automobile-pedestrian conflicts in the Square...