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...more scientific level, Rollo Tryon's work concentrates on classifying various branches of the plant. Recently he and his wife completed the most comprehensive classification and analysis of the plant ever assembled. Other botanists have heralded the project-six years in the making and roughly 900 pages long-a scientific masterpiece...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Botanical Beast Or Buddy? | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...While Rollo Tryon concentrates on the plant's visible characteristics, his wife concentrates on the tiny fern spores, on which she is a renowned expert. "I work on the little parts, while he does the big stuff," she says...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Botanical Beast Or Buddy? | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...entertained the leisured class on their voyage. Those most pressed for time could make the trip in an hour and 45 minutes in 14-seater, heated planes that flew daily from Boston to New York. Even Santa "pastured his reindeer and ordered a monoplane for his deliveries," according to Rollo airlines. They claimed that the merry old soul had "gone modern." A raccoon coat could provide an extra layer of warmth on those journeys...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: Raccoon Coats to Atari Games: A Century's Worth of Shopping | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

...like "evil", "fantastic" and "dangerous" when describing him. Their machine gun attacks would probably render most men impotent. They say that his psychology is "vacuous," "unscientific," "irresponsible," "without a psyche" and that it "necessitates an atrophy of consciousness." And many of them are distinguished figures: Noam Chomsky, Thomas Szasz, Rollo May, Carl Rogers and Stephen Spender--to name...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Under Skinner's Skin | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...Rollo May once unknowingly pointed out a fundamental aspect of Skinner's personality by criticizing his work: "I have never found any place in Skinner's system for the rebel. Yet the capacity to rebel is of the essence in a constructive society." Skinner was something of a rebel during his college career and still is--perhaps a reason for his never starting a community along the lines of the one in his novel, Walden Two. After developing an aversion to Hamilton College("I was not good at sports and suffered acutely as...better players bounced basketballs off my cranium...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Under Skinner's Skin | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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