Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point. The Sandpiper, for example, raised a question about religion: Was there thematic justification for making Richard Burton an Episcopal priest rather than a layman? The consensus was yes, but the Legion gave the movie a disapproving B because the Christian (Burton) seems to lose out morally to the naturalist (Elizabeth Taylor...
...hardly imagine getting through it all, much less ruining it. President Grant, who established the first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, acted not so much to conserve as to foil a group of land speculators. The real father of conservation is considered to be John Muir, a California naturalist, who in 1890 persuaded the Federal Government to take over the Yosemite Valley and the lands around...
GRAND CANYON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch is guide for a mule trip from the rim to the bottom of the canyon and a boat ride down the Colorado River rapids. Color...
Died. Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, 86, last living child of Alexander Graham Bell, wife of Gilbert Grosvenor, board chairman of the National Geographic Society, who was never satisfied with being merely a relative to the famous, and won a reputation as a naturalist and geographer (while raising six children), traveling the globe by camel and canoe, elephant and helicopter, including a 22,000-mile trek through Africa at the age of 73; in Bethesda...
Peddler in Coonskins. The failures convinced Audubon, at 35, that his real vocation was as a painter and naturalist. He started on the 435 drawings that were to become his masterwork, The Birds of America. It was 18 years in the works, and in the meantime he supported himself as a sign painter, debutante's tutor and dancing master. To help feed the two children, his wife Lucy taught school...