Word: naturalist
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...such errors offend not only Fielding's sense of professionalism but a sort of noblesse oblige which he works hard to maintain. A product of prep schools, Princeton and genial genealogy, Fielding is descended on his father's side from Novelist Henry Fielding, related on his mother's to Naturalist William Temple Hornaday. After a brief postgraduate career as a mutual funds salesman, Temp turned to the typewriter and sold his first article to the Reader's Digest in 1940. He was then called into the Army and sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., where his commanding officer assigned...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marlin Perkins joins Explorer-Naturalist Jim Fowler in the Peruvian Andes to search for one of nature's grandest gliders, the Andean condor...
...world's oldest and largest plants. Yet it is more than a plant and more than a relic. With huge trunks soaring hundreds of feet into the sky, a forest of Sequoia sempervirens is a life unto itself, binding a despoiled planet to its pristine past. As California Naturalist Duncan McDuffie said: "To enter a grove of redwoods is to step within the portals of a cathedral more beautiful and more serene than any erected by the hands...
After touring the Galapagos with noted naturalist Carl Anglemeyer, the filmers will leave for Santiago, Chile, around July 13 to continue their documentary. It is slated for production at various universities in the United States and possible on a national television network...
Witnessing this worldwide obduracy, writers as disparate as Naturalist Konrad Lorenz and Novelist Arthur Koestler have redefined Homo sapiens as Homo maniacus, arguing that man appears doomed by some inherent quirk to follow the dinosaur into oblivion. Among the apocalyptically minded, the only question is where Armageddon will begin. Harlem or the Hotel Majestic? The Sorbonne or the Sinai Peninsula...