Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes in his Glanmore sonnet sequence. (Glanmore was the author's home for four years after he left Belfast.) These poems must be considered the centerpiece of Field Work, and are wonderfully successful in their fusion of reach and reticence. In them, Heaney also demonstrates that versification is not extinct. He chisels rhymes out of unlikely word combinations, and simultaneously knows when to interrupt his alliteration with parenthetical asides...
...camera follows that inquiry, from his discovery of the fossils of extinct reptiles in Patagonia to his speculations on the origins of the ancient, giant turtles of the Galapagos Islands. Slowly, step by careful step, his theory of natural selection takes shape. As laid out with elegant precision by Writer Robert Reid, Darwin's thought process steadily builds suspense, even though the outcome has been known for 120 years. Nothing is as dramatic as the unfolding of an idea so important that it fundamentally alters the way man looks at himself and his world...
...anomalously high degree. Sure, some scientists are crossing boundaries as research necessarily becomes more interdisciplinary, but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct the big picture. It seems that the grand synthesizers have become virtually extinct...