Word: glacially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter an anonymous postal inspector who recently spot-checked the mail facilities at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, one of the more glacial arms of Italy's infamous postal service. The inspector found only four of the office's 49 workers on the job. As it happened, his report landed on the desk of Luciano Infelisi, a crusading magistrate, who was appalled by the absenteeism. Infelisi began to issue warrants, and he demanded that 20 ministries and state agencies hand over the names of employees with high absenteeism records. Before Italy's 3.8 million civil servants could...
...European romanticism, in particular to Caspar David Friedrich. When he let his sense of nature as a ground of elemental conflict speak directly, uninflected by sentiment, he produced one of the great images of his century, The Challenge, 1844: a stag bellowing defiance at its swimming enemy in the glacial boneyard of a mountain landscape. Such a painting makes all the dewy-eyed spaniels bearable, if not worthwhile...
...Harvard is no longer a proposal; it is now a fact. Several details remain to be hammered out, but its appearance only one year after a committee was formed to investigate the possibilities of a campus Third World center is remarkable by Harvard's clock, which often runs on Glacial Standard Time...
...Harvard is no longer a proposal; it is now a fact. Several details remain to be hammered out, but its appearance only one year after a committee was formed to investigate the possibilities of a campus Third World center is remarkable by Harvard's clock, which often runs on Glacial Standard Time...
...Harvard is no longer a proposal; it is now a fact. Several details remain to be hammered out, but its appearance only one year after a committee was formed to investigate the possibilities of a campus Third World center is remarkable by Harvard's clock, which often runs on Glacial Standard Time...