Word: glaciality
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WHAT IS STRIKING about Schwartz's account is the contrast between the urgent needs of dozens of tenants and the glacial indifference of their monolithic landlord. Some of the tenants lost everything in the fire and were struggling just to keep their lives together. Others were evicted from undamaged apartments that were slowly deteriorating as rainwater filtered through the north wing of the building, which remained unrepaired and unroofed for almost a year after the fire...
...system with a hand-held unit about the size of a pack of 100-mm cigarettes and a tape cassette hardly bigger than a commemorative postage stamp. The Picocassette, as it is called, weighs three grams and can hold 60 minutes of dictation on a tape that moves a glacial nine-tenths of a centimeter per second. The tape is about one-fourteenth the size of a standard audiocassette and not half as big as Microcassettes, which have been in use since 1969. The small machines are expensive: $395 for the hand-held dictating unit, $550 for the transcribing device...
While eager to see justice done, victims often find the glacial movement of the courts a painful and costly ordeal. Rosemary Boeck, of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., and her family spent at least 22 months testifying intermittently at three separate trials in Wisconsin and Illinois after her son's murder. She helped organize a Parents of Murdered Children group, which offers counseling. Says she: "I thought I was ready to be committed, but I found out that my feelings were normal...
...Bovary. A chapter contains contrasting chronologies, one of the author's public career and honors, the other of his failures and the early deaths of many of his family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...
...been the worst of winters. Temperatures down to -14 0 F. Shards of ice glittering on the Gothic towers of John Calvin's church, the Cathedral of St. Peter. The glacial wind known as the bise whipping the beautiful lake into whitecaps all along the quais that fan out from the Mont Blanc Bridge. Just last month, two feet of snow suddenly blocked all avenues to the Palais des Nations, the U.N.'s European headquarters, and forced the postponement of an international conference on human rights. Incroyable. Nobody could remember such a thing ever happening before. Swiss army recruits...