Word: glaciered
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...style: history is his natural element, and from the last 20 years of Johnson's output it is clear that he took to a manner of freewheeling historical allusion as his proposed alternative to the International Style-which by 1950 had frozen from a mainstream into a glacier, trapping its architects in ice like mastodons...
...Glacier's Edge. Nothing so simple will make life appear normal to her author. In her fourth published volume of poems, Procedures for Underground, Atwood compresses to an even more tactile intensity the panic that beats through her novel. Others may see evolution as a reasonably deserved survival of the fittest. Her gift, and her curse, is to see the universe as one living creature that survives only by devouring parts of itself. Even the cord of an electric typewriter can seem organic-a "hungry plug drinking a sinister transfusion...
...three young Icelandic pilots fresh from duty with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Business was slow until the winter of 1950, when good fortune visited the company in the guise of disaster: one of its planes crashed on the Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier. A U.S. Air Force C-47 was sent to pick up the unhurt pilots, but it could not take off again because the air was too thin. Icelandic's owners bought the plane for scrap from the Air Force for $700. Months later, they dug it out from under 18 feet...
...season peak. Unhappily. Americans in their massive, neo-Thoreauvian urge threaten to create precisely the environment they are trying to escape. A haven like Yosemite, once celebrated by naturalists and the National Geographic, offers roughly the solitude of Central Park on a weekday. Says one Interior Department official: "Visiting Glacier National Park is like going to a Safeway parking...
According to the oft-repeated Andean scenario of disaster, an earthquake jars loose a gigantic slice of glacier and rock from a jagged peak. The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam. This, in turn, sets loose what the Peruvian peasants refer to with dread as a huayco-a wall of water, rock and mud that can bury entire villages in the valleys below. In 1797 a huayco killed 41,000 Ecuadorians and Peruvians; in 1939 another took the lives of 40,000 Chileans...