Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief pilot for the U.S.-Canadian Icefield Ranges Research Project, Phil Upton had for years stared down from his plane at the billions of tons of antediluvian ice frozen onto the east slope of Mount Steele in Canada's Yukon Territory. Perhaps 20,000 years old, it looked much the same as any other glacier-until six weeks ago, when Upton gazed down and did a double take. To his astonishment, Steele Glacier's normally mirror-smooth surface now was churned into cathedral-like spires 250 ft. tall. The huge chunk of ice was on the move...
...London, tributes to "the only antediluvian," as he styled himself in 1940, range from an hour-long BBC television show built around his favorite songs to a radio play about the second most illustrious of the Churchills, the Duke of Marl borough. At dozens of observances throughout the U.S., Americans contributed funds to the Winston Churchill Memorial- at Fulton, Mo., commemorating the historic 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech at Westminster College, in which Churchill urged the Western world to close ranks again in the face of a threat to peace as formidable as any it had yet seen: "From Stettin...
...anger and abuse were just about the only editorial commodities around. Papers that could look upon Goldwater with approval were in the minority. Leading it were the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News. "What, pray," asked the Journal, coming to Goldwater's defense, "is so antediluvian about saying that the pendulum . . . between individual freedom and State authority has swung too far to the latter? Plainly, it has." Said the Daily News: "Goldwater's victory in the convention next month would guarantee U.S. citizens a clearcut choice in November, as between conservative and liberal government. That...
With this admirable equipment and range of interest, Mrs. Bedford wrote The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), a family study of the antediluvian fabric of Catholic European civilization that is regarded by a small but devout body of readers as a minor masterpiece. Now seven years after, she has followed it with A Favourite of the Gods, in which another family of aristocratic Europeans (this time, Italian-English-American rather than German-English) plays the complicated game of living by the exacting rules of class and faith...
...building by Corbusier is a work of clear genius. He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair...