Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face is gouged by deep melancholy, but his hands wave about with abandon. He will begin to describe an elaborate ges ture, then pull his hand in close to his body. The effect is that of a man who has hailed a cab and then decided to walk home...
...academic mandarins can contribute little or nothing to the field. However, what they can do to it, and especially to our younger writers is quite another matter. One can only hope that among them there will be enough men with the prudence and good taste to walk carefully and considerately over the ground they have not tilled and crops they have not cultivated...
Recent visitors to Nixon's Casa Pacifica compound report that his spirits and his health have taken an upturn. Actually, the dwindling staff seems more depressed than the boss. "How much can you walk on the beach?" asked one youthful aide last week. "We have developed a special bond with each other; we depend so much on each other. But it is the bitter life of exile...
...Councilwoman Cornelia Wheeler, who claims that she received all her political knowledge from Crane, mayor and consistent vote-getter Walter J. Sullivan is an old-style politician: "It is discouraging to walk in a parade with Walter. Everyone who sees him says 'Hi, Walter.' I thought I should have hired a claque to yell 'Hi Connie,' just to march with him because he is so popular." But does she believe he could lead the city coalition needed to make things move? "No," says Wheeler. "I don't think the businessmen would rally around...
...community groups aren't the only fragmented interests in town that coalesce only to kill an issue they don't like. The Harvard Square Businessmen, after several years of leaderless lethargy, quickly consolidated forces when the 1972 Brattle Street walk project apparently threatened their businesses. The Brattle pedestrian mall, a Cornelia Wheeler-backed project, closed off Brattle St. at Brattle Square to all but emergency traffic. The project lasted for six months until. Wheeler claims, Square retailers chose to brand the mall a scapegoat for slumping trade and successfully petitioned the council to scrap the measure...