Word: sidewalkers
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...ings and queens who ride in large, open carriages with stern livery boys at their side, stone buildings covered in soot, ground beef served spicy and raw in sidewalk cafes, insane drivers who aim directly for tourists. This is Europe--at least as seen from the perspective of much of America, not excluding our cloistered campus. Many Harvard students, who usually swim valiantly upstream against the flow of conventional ideas, allow themselves to float comfortably along on the current of public opinion when it comes to the Old World...
...abyss opened for a moment, and black bats flew out. They filled the air with old nightmares, throwbacks to a style of history that the world had been forgetting. The Soviet Union was seized by a sinister anachronism: its dying self. Men with faces the color of a sidewalk talked about a "state of emergency." They rolled in tanks and told stolid lies. The world imagined another totalitarian dusk. If Gorbachev was under arrest, who had possession of the nuclear codes...
...last time I was at 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...
Melissa R. Langsam's 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...
...when we're alone, or with friends. Make us feel special, subtly remind us that you actually want to spend time with us. Open doors for us, wait for our order to arrive before you attack your own plate of pasta, and walk on the street side of the sidewalk. Gentlemanly behavior is certainly admirable...