Word: glacial
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...checks courtesy of some big foundation or Government agency, today's academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...
...Supreme Court in 1954 changed many of the underlying conditions of life in the U.S. by decreeing that the old "separate but equal" doctrine was antithetical to American democracy. Today, a dozen years later, many militant ideologues are impatient with what they consider the glacial pace of progress in civil rights. They espouse instead a racist philosophy that could ultimately perpetuate the very separatism against which Negroes have fought so successfully. Oddly, they are not white men but black, and their slogan is "Black Power...
...order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would wreck NATO, and issued a glacial statement sniffing that Barzel's ideas were strictly "personal opinions...
...obstacle to credibility in Dreyer's heroine is that her vaunted passion is so easily mistaken for stony inflexibility. As played by a glacial blonde, Nina Pens Rode, the lady appears mesmerized; a reference, for instance, to her "magic charm" becomes a droll unintentional joke. She describes herself, in somewhat fustian language, as drops of dew, a passing cloud or a mouth searching for another mouth, when in fact she behaves most of the time like a mouth searching for a listening ear. Words are Gertrud's weapons, and Dreyer wields them in characteristically slow and painstaking style...
...almost glacial calm, Rusk considers diplomacy a slow, dull business-and he is grateful that it is. "Let's not have too much excitement these days," he observes. "It's too damn dangerous." Addressing a group of State Department visitors last week, he counseled: "Reserve judgment to a degree until you dig into the heart of a problem. Glandular reactions are not good enough any more." He is uncharacteristically cutting toward "these third-party amateurs who are so busy trying to mediate the Viet Nam war," mostly without any suspicion that hundreds of existing diplomatic channels have been...