Word: glacial
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...choice of a savior: Democrat Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 62, the man who had served three terms as mayor, from 1954 to 1965. As mayor, Wagner made some advances in civil rights, increased the police force and kept peace with the unions; but in many other areas he exhibited a glacial inertia, and he left the city with more potholes in its streets and more holes in its civic pride than he had inherited. Indeed, Rockefeller and Rose supported Lindsay in 1965 as the man who could best "save" New York City after it had slid under Mayor Wagner. Last week...
...nothing is Iceland called the Land of Ice and Fire: its glacial facade covers one of the most active volcanic regions in the world. In 1963, inhabitants of the tiny island of Heimaey, six miles south of Iceland, watched with some fear and fascination as an' underwater eruption 14 miles away created a new island before their eyes. The island was later named Surtsey, after the Norse god of fire and destruction...
...Cries and Whispers screenplay. Perhaps it is because "ever since my childhood I have pictured the inside of the soul as a moist membrane in shades of red." Both Hedda Gabler and this film share, too, a careful choreography of movement, with the actresses gliding in almost glacial grace across the frame. Yet as ever in Berg man, although the conception seems theatrical, the style is superbly cinematic. Bergman is a film maker of consummate craftsmanship. There are mo ments in Cries and Whispers that are among the most memorable he has ever filmed: an eager, unrestrained display of sudden...
Victoria: even today the name conjures up a glacial and portly figure swathed in black mourning, the aged face set in its pale exophthalmic stare of hauteur as she proceeds (for monarchs do not walk) across some shaven lawn at Balmoral. She is a living monument, testy, imperious, not amused. When the old die we remember them as old, and so it has been with Queen Victoria...
...from the Sunday Times written by Loren Eiseley. ("He's one of the only modern writers I like," she said. "The others are so full of examining their feelings and describing their inner thoughts--I don't think such introspection gets you anywhere.") In the article, Eiseley discussed the glacial epoch in relation to man's fear of nature, described our current world situation as the depths of winter, and deplored the "heedless ones" who want "liberation without responsibility" (here Mrs. Emmett looked over the clipping at me, nodding, and winked). She finished reading the article in her strong, clear...