Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...libretto the French found far from funny, and its music they found distressingly short on substance. "A misery," said Le Figaro. But the Paris production was starved and skimpy, and Menotti's countless champions comforted themselves in the faith that The Last Savage would find a happier habitat in New York. Last week the Savage arrived at the Met in a production so beautiful that Menotti cheerfully conceded he would have no excuse if it failed. It did, and he hasn...
...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
...Japanese kids, who had already put in a full school day, were starting a six-week course (tuition: $6) in "The Exciting World of Plants and Animals." For 75 minutes, they tackled all kinds of questions: What is a reptile? What does "coldblooded" mean? Flaunting new words from habitat to hibernate, the kids-second, third and fourth graders -will soon take up mammals, vertebrates, soil and plant propagation, subjects that most of them meet only vaguely in their daytime studies. At another church, a Douglas Aircraft engineer taught fifth to seventh graders Newton's laws, to launch a course...
...Walter J. Breckenridge, director of Minnesota's Natural History Museum, to compile an illustrated nature book. Breckenridge included pertinent facts about each animal (horned toads are really lizards; skunks are ac curate up to 12 ft.), tips on such field-trip essentials as avoiding snakebite, and a habitat map of U.S. wildlife...
...mother's love is powerless to help, his father is resigned. But a fable he is told gives him insight into his enemy. It tells of Germany's Kaiser, who was presented with some elks by the Czar of Russia and tried to duplicate their natural habitat. But they all died, because they missed the stimulation of the wolves who had preyed on them...