Word: specializes
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Winston E. Banko combines business with pleasure. Professionally, he is a biologist, stationed in Hawaii, bird watching for the U.S. Department of the Interior. It therefore gave him special pleasure when, while hacking his way through an island rain forest in search of rare biological specimens, he spotted a bird with a "yellow posterior and a peculiar, sickle-shaped bill." The bird was the Mauinukupuu (pronounced noo-koo-poo-oo), which had been considered extinct since...
Unified Parishes. The proposed government of the united superchurch would be both hierarchal and democratic, with three orders of ordained ministers: bishops for district, regional, and national office, presbyters to lead parishes and congregations, and deacons to perform special ministries and other duties. Existing churches of the various denominations would be arranged in unified "parishes," the better to utilize available space and talent. Such parishes will be intentionally multiracial, and thus not necessarily geographical entities. A national assembly, with the laity receiving a bloc vote along with each of the ministerial orders, would decide matters of faith and order...
...liberal-or, as he prefers to put it, a "maverick lemming." In fact, he is more nearly a conservative, with a taste for tradition in literature and privilege in life. He conveys the oddly patrician appeal of an elegant and unabashed snob and he has the patrician's special toughness...
Powell's world is special, as special as Proust's. In Evelyn Waugh's much-quoted observation, Powell has even been rated Proust's equal-with the qualification that he is much funnier. All the best jokes are family jokes, and the British Establishment is one of the closest of all cultural families. One no more needs to be a member of it to relish Anthony Powell than one needs to be a French homosexual with aristocratic friends to enjoy Proust. Like the peculiar British fondness for cold toast, though, a taste for Powell...
Young Novelist Thomas Keneally showed his talents in Bring Larks and Heroes (TIME, Aug. 16), which bore on the special subject of colonial servitude. Despite its title, Three Cheers for the Paraclete is less special. Modern Sydney, where the story takes place, is not remote; indeed, its population, one-sixth Irish Catholic, lends the quality of life there something of the familiar, built-in tensions of Boston or Philadelphia...