Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hubbard's organization wasn't treated so well in other countries. England refused for a while to admit foreigners coming for upper-level courses. South Africa and Rhodesia refused to admit Hubbard. The state of Victoria, Australia, has outlawed Scientology altogether. Further investigations are pending in New Zealand and England...
...eight Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships-established in memory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy-are not so open-ended. They provide for a year's study in a university in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada...
...took the lead coming down the stretch, he shouted to himself: "You've won it! You've won it!" Doubell professes to care little for glory or gold medals-or even that his Olympic time of 1 min. 44.3 sec. equaled the world record of New Zealand's Peter Snell. "From the moment I touched the tape," he says, "it was all downhill, anticlimax, God Save the Queen and all that. Who needs national anthems...
Franklin Russell, 43, is a tall, sturdy, New Zealand-born nature writer with the kind of rugged looks that excite casting directors for beer commercials. He has been called the most interesting and accomplished writer in his field since Rachel Carson. (He is, in fact, far more accomplished; The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea were basically beads -of fact strung on a thread of prose that often strained for poetic effect.) Unlike Miss Carson, however, Russell is not a sentry on the ecological DEW line. His books, Argen the Gull, Watchers at the Pond...
...tolerate his own-and life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable is what we laugh at," writes New Zealand-born Philosopher D. H. Monro in his survey of prevailing theory. Argument of Laughter. "We laugh because we have seen something laughable. That seems...