Word: lepidoptera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer, the hotel and town are crammed with tourists. It is time for the Nabokovs to leave. They do -to a different place every year, chosen for the local lepidoptera. This year it will be Lugano. Nabokov seemingly never tires of saying he may return to the U.S. "Especially in spring," he says, "I dream of going to spend my purple-plumed sunset in California, among the larkspurs and oaks and in the serene silence of her university libraries...
...there are legions of vagabonds like Corominas. In the rain forests of the Caribbean island of Trinidad, Amherst Biologist Lincoln Brower, 34, is leaping after lepidoptera to check out a theory that the color patterns of butterflies edible to birds are evolving toward the color patterns of nonedible butterflies, as a measure of survival. Last week Entomologist Dennis Hynes, 37, of California State Polytech, slipped on snowshoes to walk atop thigh-deep drifts on Washington's Mount Baker and bring back iceboxes filled with larvae specimens of a crop-killing insect called the crane...
...moths decided to hold a popularity contest to determine who was the greatest hippie among them. Adlai and Averill, two particularly swinging Lepidoptera, were the leading contenders. Booth waited anxiously outside the polling booth for the results to be announced. When at last the decision was posted, Adlai's face fell. It proclaimed...
Creeping Splits. Previews, Inc.'s effort has conservationists, swamp lovers, hunters and bird watchers so mad they could swat a lepidoptera. They are lyric in their descriptions of the Great Dismal Swamp as a primeval forest of peat bog, cypress and juniper trees, of diaphanous curtains of Spanish moss, of copperhead and rattlesnake, bear, deer and mink, and of quicksand. The swamp once covered 1,500 sq. mi. But modern civilization's bulldozers have cut it down to some 600 sq. mi. Now even to the Great Dismal Swamp comes the forward tread of split-levelism...