Word: glaciered
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There was a hot time at the edge of the glacier last week...
...heyday of the Vikings, before 1300 A.D., the populous republic of Iceland lived largely by agriculture; the Norse raised sheep in Greenland, where no sheep graze today. After 1300, the cold crept down and the Icelanders gave up farming. The Greenlanders were exterminated, perhaps by starvation, perhaps by glacier-fleeing Eskimos. Now that the tide has turned, Dr. Ahlmann, a good Norseman, hopes the warm cycle will last for at least a few centuries...
...artists had done their best. Surrealist Max Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
Conchita has evolved her own special act, which has been accepted by many orthodox aficionados. First she meets the bull on horse. Glacier-cool, she keeps in the path of the charging bull "until the last moment, then skillfully maneuvers her superbly trained mount aside. Still on horseback, she digs the beribboned banderillas into the bull's hide. Then she hops on to the ground for conventional cape work. Occasionally Conchita stoops and kisses the bull between the horns. Her explanation: "It is a gesture of triumph, like a rooster crowing over the dead body of its opponent...
Toynbee begins his investigation far down in the pit of history, when the Ice Age ground Europe beneath a creeping glacier. The plains of North Africa and the Middle East (now deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...