Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Australian guys surfing. This is real art? Tracy Moffat: Free Falling, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, through March 14th. 955 Boylston St, Boston. Open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays until 9 p.m. Admission $3.25 for students...
...invaluable aide-de-camp may have been one Syms Covington, an obscure British sailor who, though he's barely mentioned in Darwin's writings, toiled at his side throughout his early career, bagging the vast array of specimens upon which Darwin founded his theory of natural selection. Now, in Australian novelist Roger McDonald's Mr. Darwin's Shooter (Atlantic Monthly Press; 365 pages; $25), Covington becomes a memorable figure in his own right--the humble, devoted triggerman who did the great scientist's dirty work...
Intercut with the tales of his voyages with Darwin are chapters depicting Covington's old age. Settled on the Australian coast, he awaits the delivery of an early copy of The Origin of Species. A reader's expectation, of course, is that the book will blow away Covington's Christian piety, but it's a measure of McDonald's wisdom and subtle understanding of human ties that something altogether stranger happens. Evolution, as Mr. Darwin's Shooter demonstrates, is driven by forces more nuanced and mysterious than the crude survival of the fittest...
...address following President Robinson'sspeech, Australian Ambassador to the U.N. RichardButler praised President Robinson as a "specialvoice from a deep and distinctive culture...
...Amount in inducements Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates offered two African I.O.C. members...