Word: botanist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Along the way Cambridge produced its share of notables: botanist Louis Agassiz, jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, actor Walter Brennan, cartoonist Al Capp and camera mogul Edwin Land. "Even Josiah Bartlett, the man who wrote Bartlett's Quotations, lived here," Dickerson said...
Many Pritchett fictions deal with styles of preserving one's dignity. How does an aging botanist confront the energies of his lovely 25-year-old companion? Carefully, as the author illustrates in the title story of his latest collection: "There are rules for old men who are in love with young girls, all the stricter when the young girls are in love with them. It has to be played as a game." Love, of course, is never a game, especially in a December-May romance where the older party keeps one eye on the clock and the younger does...
Before the scientific world could even begin to digest these assertions, the journal published still another communique from the young patent examiner. Einstein had devised an equation that accounted for Brownian motion, the random, zigzagging movements of microscopic particles within liquids (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who first observed it in 1827). Einstein suggested that the specks were being jostled by molecules in the liquid, an idea that finally convinced many early 20th century skeptics of the atomic nature...
These are by no means the most bizarre features of Lionniland. There are, for example, the woodland tweezers, which grow in a pattern the fictitious Japanese botanist Uchigaki has found disturbingly similar to the game of Go. And the black Anaclea taludensis flowers, defiers of the laws of perspective -they shrink as the visitor approaches, then expand as he withdraws. The Giraluna germinates from a point somewhere above the ground; its roots grow down toward but never into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated...
...wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered Species...