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...proposals is that Harvard build a parking garage opposte the Broadway Market and a pedestrian bridge between the Yard and Memorial Hall. The engineers also recommended closing off Kirkland St. north of Mem Hall; making Massachusetts Ave., Mt. Auburn St., Boylston St., and Brattle and Eliot Sts. one-way; extending Cambridge St. at its western end; and putting through a new road between Garden St. and Memorial Drive...
...tone is unfailingly pedestrian. When he misses his appointed train, Hardy dutifully writes to explain his absence, as on Oct. 12, 1892: "I have attended Tennyson's funeral-and find I cannot get back very well tonight-so I will wait till tomorrow-returning about the usual time-though possibly by the Salisbury train, about twenty minutes later than the 6:13. George Meredith was there-also Henry James, Huxley, etc." When Hardy becomes more solicitous, it is almost always to forestall a visit by his wife: "Though I should like to see you in London I feel...
...flowed through the streets, though drivers cautiously detoured a few blocks to avoid the trouble spots. There were some grimly humorous sights: outside the Hotel Caravelle, a Diem policeman seated in a tiny European car struggling desperately to get out of his uniform before the rebels spotted him; a pedestrian dashing madly around a corner, bullets kicking up sparks at his heels; a man scooting into a sidewalk pissoir an instant before it was riddled with machine-gun fire (five minutes later he dashed out unhurt). As tanks whipped off bursts of ammunition, children would duck right under the smoking...
...human race. Throughout the world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most ill-paid lives of any workers-but countless satellite industries. From Madagascar to Greenland, the catch of the sea, ranging from the lordly tuna through the pedestrian cod and herring to the rarer but often treasured whale and shark, is industriously smoked, fried, salted, baked, dried, roasted, stewed, pickled, casseroled or even eaten half-rotten (as in Iceland) or quite raw (as in Japan...
...parks are there, the green ways are there, the pedestrian veins and arteries connect them." The university, says Pereira, "will be a real link between town and gown, a place intimately connected with the center of learning...