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...past six months. Dorothy Thompson calls him "the great life-affirmer." This week Miss Thompson praised him as a man of action--"as soldier, war correspondent and public servant in high places. One sometimes has the feeling that the man has skipped a century, harking back to less pedestrian and comfort-loving times, to older and more tested virtues. He restores to the leadership of Britain the nobleman, in its exact sense of being a man and being noble...
Nixon, comporting himself with dignity but with an enthusiasm that sometimes made him seem overeager, said nothing of importance in public during the entire trip. His ingratiating small talk was more pedestrian than usual; his toasts were ringing evocations of a world without walls. He even quoted Mao Tse-tung: "So many deeds cry out to be done...Seize the day. Seize the hour...
...Fresh Pond, I noticed how packed down the mud was in a distinct track leading from the sidewalk to the top of the retaining wall, and from there over a snow pile into the parking lot. If I were to guess, I would say this is the main pedestrian route to the theater, and it is a dangerous...
...those who live and worship in the area. Residents complain with good reason that the Knafel Center would further diminish what little "buffer zone" they have with hulking structures of the University, and that it would detract from Cambridge's New England character. They worry about the congestion, both pedestrian and vehicular, that could result from such a crowded block. And parishioners at the Swendenborgian Church of New Jerusalem, located at the corner of Quincy and Kirkland streets, fear Knafel would drown them in shadow. Residents are so up-in-arms over the proposal that more than 150 residents signed...
...commentary "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" (Jan. 9) advises men who wish to be gentlemanly to "walk on the street side of the sidewalk." This tip captures an ideal of the past--but only in form, not in spirit. Years ago, careening carriages and muddy streets threatened the pedestrian who walked on the street side of the sidewalk. Today, as some etiquette guides point out, the more immediate threat for female pedestrians often comes from dark alleyways on the "woman's" half of the sidewalk. EMILY R. SADIGH...