Word: paleontologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chills. Shuddery anticipation, as Jeff Bridges, playing the Princeton paleontologist who is but the first of millions who will soon believe that Kong lives, speaks this line in the wardroom of an oil-company ship. The vessel is exploring the ocean's remoter reaches in search of a petroleum strike that the expedition's comically cynical leader (Charles Grodin) is convinced will turn the energy crisis around...
...third new member of the chapter is a paleontologist. Gray, who will be one of two speakers at the Radcliffe Silver Anniversary Dinner this Friday, is the curator of Paleobotany at the Museum of Natural History and a professor of Biology at the University of Oregon...
...their struggle for independence. A discovery of natural gas and oil in Kurdish territory seems a likely source of financing for the Kurds, but when they try to buy arms with the money officially paid for exploitation rights, the funds disappear into Europe's banking system. A Scottish paleontologist named MacGregor tries to help, and his investigation takes him to Paris at the time of the 1968 student rebellion. Textures are well observed: the roughness of Kurdish mountain men, the slithery politesse of European moneymen. There is a convincing smell of burnt insulation; it is clear that neither...
...theories, including his central concept of human evolution progressing toward an "Omega point," an ultimate unity in Christ. When elaborated upon in later writings, these ideas proved so unsettling that church officials forbade him to publish them. As a result, during his lifetime Teilhard was celebrated only as a paleontologist who worked on the Peking man discovery. It was not until after his death 20 years ago this week that his philosophical works (among them: The Phenomenon of Man, Christianity and Evolution) were printed, and he became a popular cult figure in theology...
...rhinos, hippos, even seals and whales, and those animals had obviously been brought to the cave by its manlike inhabitants. De Lumley doubts that the cave dwellers were good hunters or fishermen; the condition of the animals' teeth and jaws indicates that they were very old. Says the paleontologist: "The cavemen either killed them when they were pretty decrepit or perhaps found them already dead." The whales and seals could well have been washed onto the beach, where the cavemen then hacked them to pieces. In fact, says De Lumley, "one may legitimately ask whether they hunted...