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Griffin is now an associate professor at Cornell. An experimental naturalist, he was a junior Fellow and a Research Associate in the Psycho-Acoustic, Fatigue and Biological Laboratories here...
...steel-blue fish off East London. The fish had large blue eyes, teeth like a cat, and four clumsy fins that looked a bit like legs. It lived for three hours, oozed oil from under its scales, bit the captain, and was taken ashore, where a local naturalist recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a fish which zoologists had believed extinct for at least 50 million years. Coelacanths appeared 300 million years ago and were much like the primitive, sea-keeping ancestors of all land vertebrates, including...
Caldwell resented being termed a naturalist. He believed, however, that the effect of naturalism on contemporary novelists has been a good one, and that all creative writing leads to an understanding of an intolerant world...
...having them read vicious attacks on capitalistic society by Marx and Archbishop Sheen. Then, the course takes up four ways man has tried to orient himself to the world: the Catholic way (Brautigum calls this "sacramental orientation"), the Protestant view ("Recognizing individual shortcomings"), the Marxist, and the naturalist-materialist orientation, typical of Westchester County and the American middle class. In his attempt to raise questions in student minds, Brautigum has made his course the cornerstone of the freshman year at Colgate...
...have always been a naturalist feeling that the clouds are preeminently and typically a part of nature: but in the book I do not tread them at all, but keep to the earth and its arts...