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...rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after the last incident, the 'raggers' excelled themselves with a trick that required no physical effort...

Author: By Rupert H. Wilkinson, | Title: Oxford College Combines Luxury, Austerity | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Your recent series of editorials on "Major problems facing the Kennedy Administration" was a)pompous, b)pedestrian, and c) unreadable. A Reader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MULTIPLE CHOICE | 1/25/1961 | See Source »

...bitter disappointment to his father, who wanted him to take over at the factory one day and refused to take his scribbling seriously. John's early versifying was pedestrian enough. At Highgate Junior School he bound his verses into a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Be a Poet | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unashamed Accompanists | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...most fun of all. At least that's the way I felt after last night's joint concert of the Harvard Glee Club and the Yale Glee Club in Sanders Theatre. The first two-thirds of the concert, with one important exception, were pleasant enough, occasionally humorous, at times pedestrian, but not really very much for a reviewer to praise or condemn. Then, at about ten o'clock, after some tepid renditions of a couple of spirituals, the Yale Glee Club burst, not totally unexpectedly, into Harvardiana...

Author: By Arthur D. Hellman, | Title: Harvard-Yale Glee Clubs | 11/19/1960 | See Source »

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