Word: icefield
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...HARDING ICEFIELD-KENAI FJORDS...
...region of deep inlets and fir forests south of Anchorage, the Kenai Fjords area is notable for bird-covered cliffs and a vast population of mountain goats and sea mammals. It also has the remnant of an icefield formed during the Pleistocene epoch, which ended some 10,000 years...
...chief pilot for the U.S.-Canadian Icefield Ranges Research Project, Phil Upton had for years stared down from his plane at the billions of tons of antediluvian ice frozen onto the east slope of Mount Steele in Canada's Yukon Territory. Perhaps 20,000 years old, it looked much the same as any other glacier-until six weeks ago, when Upton gazed down and did a double take. To his astonishment, Steele Glacier's normally mirror-smooth surface now was churned into cathedral-like spires 250 ft. tall. The huge chunk of ice was on the move...
Rousmaniere said that members of the group are now experimenting with the dramatic theories of Richard Shepard, co-director of the American Place Theatre in New York. They have used his methods in three plays, The icefield of the Absolute Encounter, objective Case, and Thousand-Eyed Lover, which were produced this fall...
...maintain the quality of these first pieces, the magazine will be something to look forward to. The play, David Cole's The Icefield of the Absolute Encounter, is a far-above-average student script, the kind of play there has never been a satisfactory way of presenting to the college. Single performances in the Experimental Theatre, usually by inexperienced casts, rarely do justice to original plays. If Harvard's dramatists have a collective fault, it is trying to cram too much intellectualizing into their scripts -- the dialogue washes over audiences, leaving them confused. If the Drama Review continues to print...