Word: glacially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems that Boston's four major college hockey teams got together on the first two Mondays in February for a bit of a glacial Garden party. It was the social event of the winter's sports season and not having established any only standing traditions in my first dozen years, I decided to embrace the Beanpot...
...youngest member in the Politburo, where the average age is 66, and probably the healthiest. Moreover, as George Washington University Kremlinologist Carl Linden sees it, his impatient approach probably clashed with that of his cautious elders. "While Brezhnev and the other old men wanted to pursue glacial tactics, Shelepin was an activist, always looking for opportunities to shake things up in the world. He has probably favored pressing the Soviet advantage in Indochina, Portugal and the Middle East more actively than Brezhnev...
...action was frigid and furious in the glacial rink, where the glare of the arena lights reflected menacingly off the steel of the skates and the glossy smoothness...
...early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark of human aspiration crushed by the world's immense and glacial indifference. "The ice in the north must look very different from that," Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia is said to have grumped on viewing this picture. He was right, though it scarcely matters. Friedrich's shipwreck survives as one of the most remarkable images of "sublimity" in all 19th century...
...represent in effect the two political alternatives between which the country had to choose. This notion remains unwieldy as a device and unresolved as an idea. Resnais does not fracture his time structure nearly so much as in Last Year at Marienbad or Muriel. Stavisky achieves a kind of glacial elegance. If it is not among the director's very best, it is at least a welcome return to form...