Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infighting has blocked the choice of his successor and forced him to stay on. In the meantime, Watson, all too sure of his lame-duck status and unwilling to burden his successor with his long-term decisions, has his hands tied, and the department's activity has slowed to glacial speed...
Child rearing and glacial activity aside, hardly anything moves slower than a major antitrust case against a big U.S. corporation. The Government filed suit to break up American Telephone & Telegraph in 1974; last fall the federal courts finally decided that they had jurisdiction to hear the case-so the Government and company served each other with demands for millions of documents to be examined before trial. The Federal Trade Commission's suit against eight major oil companies is flowing about as speedily as heavy motor oil; it was filed four years ago, but lawyers do not expect trial...
...Warfare. The Mediterranean is like no other history. It opens not with Philip II (1527-1598) -whose royal entrance is delayed for several hundred pages-but high in the mountains that fringe the sea. It analyzes the shepherds' trails over the Pyrenees, it considers the early use of glacial ice to make ice cream, and it ponders the fate of the Jews, driven from city after city as the population exceeded the available food supply. Only after the fundamentals are established does Braudel turn to the traditional history of political events. Even then, the celebrated King Philip of Spain...
Climatologists tend to agree that whatever the long-term trend, the earth's climate is entering a period of increased variability that will make prediction and planning ever more difficult. "I do not see glacial melts or an ice age," says Jerome Namias of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. "What I see is fluctuations." Stephen Schneider, deputy head of the climate project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., says the evidence of the past few years suggests that there is a good possibility the climate is becoming more unpredictable...
Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort...