Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China is acknowledging that the best hope for these reclusive and mysterious creatures may lie in the unlikely locale of Baraboo, Wis. That is the site of the International Crane Foundation, operated by Ornithologist George Archibald, 38, the world's leading authority on cranes, who has had extraordinary success breeding the birds in captivity. Last week, in the company of a Chinese official, a pair of 4 1/2-ft.-tall black-necks arrived at Archibald's headquarters to further test his matchmaking skills. Says Archibald of the female Lan-lan (which means flower) and the male Yang-yang (sun): "They...
...begun to pay some attention to one of the persistent criticisms of its selections: that they have been too male, too white and too academic. The new fellows include four women (one of them black) and seven nonacademics, among them two visual artists, a Hispanic community organizer, an ornithologist and a Roman Catholic priest...
Hugh Amory, an associate curator of the Houghton Library collection, calls the first Bible printed in Cambridge, Mass. in 1663 "an impressive little volume" because it was the first to be worded in an exotic Indian tongue. Amory also finds an 1827 book of colorful life size paintings by ornithologist and painter John J. Audubun "just spectacular...
...life of the saint (the preaching to the birds, the visitation by an angel, the receiving of the stigmata), animated by the whole range of Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs are derived from such disparate sources as bird song (the composer is a lifelong ornithologist and notated some of his avian themes at Assisi), plain chant and the whole-tone scale. The themes are treated with Messiaen's characteristic rhythmic complexity, but the effect nevertheless is one of almost childlike simplicity...
Enter as well the office of famous ornithologist and "certified genius" Earl Weaver, the plucky, gravelly voiced helmsman of the Orioles. Doting on every word dropped from the month of that philosopherking, we learn why indeed the Orioles win more games than anybody else: fundamentals. We learn the basic offensive strategy at the heart of the Birds' success--the Big Bang theory of Killer Innings. And we find out the truth behind Boswell's assertion that Weaver (sorry, Sparky and Billy) is the best manager there is. Please don't scream at the author's unmistakable predilection for a certain...