Word: centricity
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...When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people as eccentric beyond belief. He would take a bath, step out, and then step in again, shouting angrily: "Dammit, I've been in here already!" He would drop a garter on the floor, plunge after it, find a book there...
...Michler Chapman, 81, father of the U.S. bird-sanctuary system, for 34 years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...