Word: scots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALEXANDER WILSON, by Robert Cantwell (318 pp.; Lippincott; $ 15). Wilson, a turbulent and visionary Scot, was the first of America's great painters of birds. He reached the colonies in 1794, explored great reaches of wilderness, and used the sketches and notes he brought back for a monumental work, American Ornithology. Author Cantwell's biography is a work of skill and love. The book is handsomely laid out, and illustrated in color with eight of Wilson's bird drawings...
...Christmas. Heppenstall's The Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took...
...other changes, students will be expected to pay cash for fines under $1. According to James, the Bursar's Office has informed him that the high cost of bureaucracy makes collection of small fines a losing proposition. "Students were getting off scot-free," James said...
Manhattan now seems to appall more often than it pleases. Tourists, who gobble up goods at Macy's, profess to find the city cold and overwhelming. On the West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide...
...After eliminating defending champ Joe Carr and U.S. Airman Ralph Morrow in the British Amateur Golf Championship, grizzled Scot Jimmy Walker, 40, ran out of steam, lost to husky British Walker Cupper Michael Bonallack...