Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naturalist drama which explores individual loneliness in the context of class and convention, Miss Julie is a moving, if at times predictable, piece of drama. Yet because the cast and director bring out the play's moral ambiguities on a small, moderated scale, they manage to overcome virtually all external impediments. As Strindberg goes, it is definitely a gamble well worth taking...
...creatures who populate the planet have always fascinated the one identified by Shakespeare as "the paragon of animals." Naturalist Darryl Stewart's entertaining Almanac shows why. Scarcely a creature crawls or jumps by without a tale...
...storage room was thoroughly ransacked after graduation from Queens University in Belfast, where he was a scholarship student. Teaching in a Northern Irish secondary school, writing at night and on weekends, Heaney published two volumes of poetry, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark. But it was not until 1972 that he reversed the procedure, choosing poetry as his main work and lecturing as a sideline. He also chose to move south, to County Wicklow, a suburb of Dublin, with his wife Marie and their three children. "I felt that by throwing up my job and moving...
...When Naturalist-Author Hal Borland died in 1978, he left a shelf of more than 30 books, as well as thousands of "outdoor editorials" written over a period of 36 years for the Sunday New York Times. He also left the text of a volume intended as a celebration of America's trees. A Countryman's Woods (Knopf; 184 pages; $25) was completed by Borland's friend and sometime collaborator Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, who also took the handsome color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate...
...TIME featured the first scientist on its cover: Frederick G. Banting, the Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas and finally provided a successful treatment of diabetes mellitus, until then almost always a killer. Two months later the spotlight focused on the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted a cover story to the controversial theories of Sigmund...