Word: outdoorsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cows well "by their udders. I think being here has restored my sanity." Lest Fleet Street think its clamoring threatened to unhinge him, he added, "Being on the land does help one get a sense of proportion much better than being stuck in the city." Charles is an outdoorsman, and the farm stay was thoroughly in character, but it is also true that his week evoked the kind of symbolism that maintains the necessary royal illusion: that his family speaks for Britain, though not about government or anything else controversial; that they are mysterious and unapproachable, though much like...
...State fish and wildlife authorities said that the six days of hunting, during which 880 animals were killed, would not damage a herd that has increased more than tenfold since 1935 to a current population of more than 20,000. But many Down Easters found the slaughter distasteful. Said Outdoorsman John N. Cole, contributing editor of the weekly Maine Times: "The moose is Maine's state animal. If we are going to change that status and hunt it, there ought to be a vote of all the people." A pro-moose outfit called SMOOSA (for Save Maine...
...Vatican Council of 1962-65. He is also ebulliently engaged in transforming the image, and even the function, of the venerable office that he holds. At 61 this week, he is still young for a reigning Pope. He has the physique of a former quarryman, chemical factory hand and outdoorsman. If his strength carries him through this crisis, he is likely to use that vigor once again as a traveling evangelist on behalf of the joy of the Christian life...
William O. Douglas, 81, energetic outdoorsman, author of more than a score of books and, above all, an uncompromising champion of what he liked to call the "first-ness of the First Amendment." During his 36 years as a Supreme Court Justice -a record term-the onetime SEC chairman and law professor at Yale and Columbia battled vigorously to safeguard the rights of individuals...
...week, take in cliff-diving in Acapulco the next, and perhaps watch the pounding of the Firecracker 500, then one will have seen sport. McPhee's corollary: the variety of human experience means simply that if he can capture one of everything-accountant and orange grower, chef and outdoorsman, barber and candlestick maker-then he will have captured life...